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From Kansas City, NPR's Laura Ziegler reports on a prison program that encourages regular people to contact and visit inmates at a federal penitentiary. The idea is to provide inmates with human contact and a positive example of how to live outside of prison.

mas Bonuses - Daniel talks with Michael Lewis an editor at the New Republic Magazine. Mr. Lewis is a former Wall Street stockbroker and they'll talk about the drastically reduced Christmas bonuses handed out by Wall Street this year. They'll also talk about the climate that pervades the annual bonus season.

Robert Smith of member station KUOW in Seattle reports on the esolution of a dispute between the State of Washington and American Indian ribes over fishing rights. A federal judge has ruled that early treaties give 4 tribes the right to harvest half of the shellfish along Puget Sound. Now, ashington State and the tribes will need to find a way to balance treaty rights ith private property rights.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr has read two new books by ormer KGB operatives, and finds fiction may be more fascinating than the truth. :30 The books discussed are "My Five Cambridge Friends," by Yuri Modin, and Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America," by Yuri Sh

David Barnett reports on the life and work of author Dawn owell. Her career as a writer spans four decades, yet she is little known. In 987, Gore Vidal, writing in the New York Review of Books, called her "..our est comic novelist. She should have been as widely read as Hemingway or the arly Fitzgerald." Primarily because she is a witty female writer on New York hemes, she has been compared to and overshadowed by Dorothy Parker.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the latest ave of violence in the Palestinian territories, and what the Israeli government lans to do about it.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a recording of music by Czech composers Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullman. Klein and Ullman were both imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War 2, and later put to death at Auschwitz. The album is called "Chamber Music from Theresienstadt," on Channel Classics. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

NPR'S TOM GJELTEN REPORTS ON THE GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE, WHICH BEGINS TODAY. ONE ISSUE ON THE GOVERNORS' MINDS IS THE MOVE TO SHIFT POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AWAY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND TOWARD THE STATES.

WILLIAM GREIDER (GRY-der) is a political reporter for Rolling Stone Magazine. His most recent contribuion is titled, "Why the Rich Get Richer." Greider speaks with Terry about his most recent article, the status of our economy, and the just announced interest rate hike. Greider is also author of two best-selling books "Secrets of the Temple :How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country" (Simon & Sch and "Who Will Tell the People: the Betrayal of American Democracy." (Simon & Sch

FLOODING: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S ANDY BOWERS IN DRUTEN (DROO-ten) IN THE NETHERLANDS, WHERE PEOPLE ARE RETURNING HOME AFTER THE WORST FLOODING IN 40 YEARS.

WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT GIVES HIS PREDICTIONS ON THIS WEEKEND'S NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFF GAMES.

Daniel talks with Stepehen Cohen, professor of Russian Studies at Princeton. They'll discuss the political implications of the invasion of Chechnya for Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the United States.