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This winter has been deemed a disaster by many snow-lovers n the Northeast United States, and the skiers, the ski slopes, the ki-wear and equipment merchants are suffering the effects. David right of member station WBUR in Boston reports on how skiers and the ki industry are trying to combat the disappointing lack of white.

Sarah Shapiro is an American writer who recently described her recollections as a 5-year old member of the Hiroshima Maidens, a group of 25 young Japanese women who were brought to the United States for medical treatment following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that astronomers have seen the oldest alaxy ever discovered. It's called "8C 14-35," and astronomers estimate it to e 15-billion light years away, and 150 to 200-thousand light years wide. James raham and his colleagues at the University of California/Berkeley saw the alaxy through an infrared telescope at Mauna Kea (MAHN-uh KAY-uh), Hawaii. They eport their findings in the current isssue of the Astrophysical Journal.

Daniel talks with author Jayne Anne Phillips about her latest novel "Shelter," which takes place at a summer camp in West Virginia. Phillips writes vividly and poetically about the experiences of adolescent girls at the camp ... a place of seeming innocence but one in which passion, danger and perversity all emerge to change their young lives forever.

Many Americans are still complaining about the state of education in America. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a "charter school" in Michigan... one of many such special schools across the country that are providing an alternative to a standard public school education.

Danny speaks with Tim Hagan, Cayahoga county commisioner in Ohio, about what the Democratic party needs to do to revitalize itself in the eyes of the American electorate.

Danny speaks with New Jersey state senator Joseph Bubba about a bill he's introduced which would fine politicians in that state for lying in campaign ads.

Critic Bob Mondello takes this look at the new film "Ladybird, Ladybird." It is the story of an English woman who battles the state to win back her children after they were taken away from her because authorities believed she had abandoned them.

Danny visits the Library of Congress where the actual written copy of Lincoln's Gettyburg Address is on display. It's the first time in 22 years the actual address has been shown at the Library of Congress.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including President Bill Clinton on the California floods, flood victim eborah Johnson, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, and President ill Clinton on what it's like to be President.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Christensen, Washington orrespondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, about Newt Gingrich's igh-profile rise to the position of Speaker of the House. They also discuss the n-going controversy between the National Park Service and the family of Dr. artin Luther King over who will control a visitor's center which is being built cross the street from Atlanta's King Center For Social Change. (Today would ave been the 66th birthday of Dr. King.)

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the future of Medicare, he health insurance system that caters specifically to elderly and disabled mericans. With the Republican promise to balance the budget on the 1995 ongressional docket, some advocates for seniors are beginning to wonder when nd if cuts will be directed at Medicare funds.