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Noah Adams talks to Dot Jackson, who lives by herself near the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. She says that she hasn't had power for two days because of the weather, but she isn't too cold because she has a wood stove. She says that whenever she goes to get wood, all the birds hiding from the cold in her woodpile fly out.

2: Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, MANNING MARABLE. His new book is Beyond Black & White, (Verso). In the book he argues that race is "essentially a social construction, not a permanent fact of biology or genetics." He calls for a politics that goes beyond "racial-identity" where the goal is "a black face in a high place."

Canadian author ROBERTSON DAVIES. He died last weekend at the age of 82, from a stroke. Terry talked with him earlier this year upon the publication of his novel, The Cunning Man (Viking) The Washington Post called it "one of author's most entertaining and satisfying novels." DAVIES had three successive careers. He began as an actor, then was a journalist and newspaper publisher, and in 1981 retired as professor of the Massy college at the University of Toronto. DAVIES wrote more than thirty books. (REBROADCAST from 2/

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A STEREO concert and interview in the Fresh Air studio with JOHN DOE, former bassist/vocalist with the punk rock group "X". He recently released a new solo album, "Kissingsohard," (Rhino's Forward label). There's also a new acoustic best-of live album featuring "X". It's called "Unclogged" (Infidelity Records, L.A., CA). (THIS CONCERT CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

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A sound montage of this past week's news including resident Bill Clinton offering his own budget plan, Rep. John Kasich (R-OH), nd House Speaker Newt Gingrich responding to the Presidential veto, Nancy ohnson (R-CT) of the House Ethic Committee, a telemarketer, Attorney General anet Reno, Sens. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sam Nunn, D-Ga on daytime talk hows, and NASA scientist Rich Young on the Galileo probe entering Jupiter's tmosphere.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the arrest and conviction of the ring-leaders of a bird smuggling operation in California. The smugglers would sneak the eggs of rare birds into the country, raise them, then sell them on the black market for tens of thousands of dollars a piece.

2: Veteran crime novelist LAWRENCE BLOCK. He's written 11 novels featuring Manhattan private eye Matt Scudder. His novels have followed Scudder through alcoholism and into recovery through an Alcoholics Anonymous program. His newest Scudder novel, A Long Line of Dead Men will be published in February.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews Oliver Stone''s "Nixon."

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR BRINGS US UP TO DATE ON THE WEEK'S MANEUVERING AS CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT TRIED TO THRASH OUT AN AGREEMENT ON BALANCING THE FEDERAL BUDGET.

Daniel talks with Utah Republican Governor Michael Levitt and Deleware's Democratic Governor Thomas Carper about the Federal Budget winding thru Congress. States are being handed responsibilities for programs that for several decades have been run by the Federal Government. The two governor offer their opinions as to whether their states are ready for the added responsibility.