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The budget bill that Congress and the President re now negotiating includes subtle details. But various groups are taking a een interest in those details -- including a Medicare provision that would make t easier for doctors and hospitals to form their own HMOs. NPR's Joanne ilberner reports.

NPR's Peter Breslow hitched a ride on a U.S. military plane trying to et into Bosnia. Bad weather has hampered landings for several days.

Commentator Reynolds Price explains why he doesn't pray in church, but does worship in the privacy of his home.

who spearheaded the Reagan administration drive for the "Star Wars" anti-missile defense system.

Mary Jo Draper from member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, reports on a severe winter storm that tore across the Plains and parts of the Southwest yesterday and today. Several states including Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma were frozen by sleet, snow and wind. In parts of Minnesota and North Dakota, high-winds have blown the snow into huge drifts, shutting down highways and in some places keeping snow plows off the roads.

Noah speaks with Christina Bokenkamp, a 17-year-old junior at Kearney (CAR-ney) High School in Kearney, Nebraska. She and her schoolmates were trapped overnight yesterday at school by the heavy snows and ice that paralyzed the Midwest. It was a memorable adventure, but she does regret not having brought a tooth brush.

TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF "A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS" OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. WE OFFER THE LATINO VERSION OF THAT POEM....READ BY NPR EDUCATION REPORTER CLAUDIO SANCHEZ. 2:30.

earthquake. 6000 people died in the quake; it was one of the worst natural disasters to strike Japan in this century.

2: Actor MICHAEL J. FOX. He got his big break on the hit TV show "Family Ties." He went on to star in a number of films, including the "Back to the Future" series. He's also starred in "Casualties of War" and "Doc Hollywood." Currently he plays a fictional character based on George Stephanopolous in the new movie "The American President." (Rebroadcast from September,

WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR EXAMINES THE PROSPECTS FOR THE BUDGET TALKS...AND HOW THEY'RE PLAYING AROUND AMERICA, WITH FORMER CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE DIRECTOR ROBERT REISCHAUER AND WITH PROFESSOR ALAN GITELSON OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY IN CHICAGO.

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Linda Wertheimer talks with Steve Bauer, executive director of the non-profit Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund, based in Littleton, Colorado. He tells how applications for loans are flooding in from all over the country by employees hurt by the federal budget stalemate.