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STEVE BUSALACCHI OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ROUNDS UP THE SNOW, FLOODING AND EXTREME COLD THAT HAS STRUCK VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NATION AS THE WINTER OF '96 ADDS ANOTHER DRAMATIC CHAPTER.

Author LINDA GRAY SEXTON's book "Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton" has come out on paperback. , She spent a long time coming to terms with her relationship with her mother, who committed suicide in 1974. [Originally aired 10/

NOCERA. CONSUMERS ARE CAUTIOUS...BUT BUSINESS PROFITS ARE UP! IF NO ONE'S SPENDING, HOW CAN THAT BE? OUR FRIEND AND ECONOMIC ANALYST JOE NOCERA, COLUMNIST FOR FORTUNE MAGAZINE, EXPLAINS.

Robert and Noah read listeners' letters.

Noah talks with with Chris Nuttall, the BBC correspondent in Turkey. Nuttall discusses the end of four-day hostage ordeal in which gunmen seized a Black Sea ferry with more than 200 people on board and threatened to blow up the boat unless Russian troops halted their attacks on Chechen rebels in southern Russia. The pro-Chechen gunmen surrendered to Turkish authorities near Istanbul after throwing their weapons into the sea.

In Minneapolis, two businessmen are trying to raise money to start a new internet company. They plan to serve corporate clients, but they also want to provide jobs to people who live in their neighborhood, an area known for prostitution and drug-dealing. John Biewen of Minnesota Public Radio reports that the company initially attracted many investors -- until they found out where the company is located.

in Chechnya.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impending end a federal program that was started in the late-1960s to provide subsidized housing for the poor in middle class white neighborhoods. The program grew out of a 1966 discrimination lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority and the federal Deparatment of Housing and Urban Development. Advocates are lobbying Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to continue the subsidies.

Arab world and how that led to the current Middle East peace process.

for the withdrawal of warring factions in Bosnia. By midnight tonight, all opposing forces are scheduled to be fully withdrawn from a 70-mile "zone of separation." The commander of NATO forces in Bosnia says he believes the parties will meet the deadline.