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Poet and storyteller Jim Heynan tells his story about a snowbound young boy who fears snow and fantasizes about spring.

Daniel speaks with Marion Nestle about this past week's endoresment of vegetarian diets by the federal government. Nestle was on the USDA panel that issued the guidelines on vegetarian diets and she says that for many years there's been evidence to show that eating vegetarian is healthy.

decision to expel a Saudi dissident at the behest of the Saudi monarchy.

was largely undone by the snow storm that shut down much of the east coast. The gathering was in anticipation of the New Hampshire primary, but candidates and guests had difficulty making it either arriving late or missing it altogether.

with shortages of food and other basic necessities. The North Korean government urges citizens to remain loyal to the Marxist regime, and promises that the situation will get better.

NPR's David Baron talks to meteorologists about the kinds of conditions that are necessary to produce a major snow storm. Experts say they're the same kind of conditions needed for an average storm, only more so.

Journalist and professor TODD GITLIN. His new book is a liberal's criticism of the "culture wars" that have destroyed the notion of common good in our country. It's called "The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars," (Metropolitan Books). GITLIN is also the author of "The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage." He teaches culture and communications , journalism, and sociology at New York University.

fire stock market columnist Dan Dorfman, for refusing to tell editors the names of anonymous sources he used in his stories. Dorfman also does commentary for the NBC cable television network, CNBC, which says it has no plans to fire him.

difficult decision to pull down a Holocaust memorial because it was being vandalized.

In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.