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Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

- Jacki speaks with Albany, Georgia, City Commissioner Marvin Bannister, who wants to pull the plug on the televised procedings of his commission. Bannister wants to thwart his rivals in neighboring towns, who are using videotape of the commission's inept deliberations to lure business away from Albany.

JOYCE DIXSON co-founded "Sons and Daughters of the Incarcerated" a group which helps children whose own parents are in prison. Dixson served seventeen years in prison after being convicted of shooting her husband. DIXSON herself left two children behind when she went to prison in 1976. During her time there she became a paralegal and became the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan while incarcerated. DIXSON reduced her sentence from a first-degree murder charge to a second-degree and was released from prison in 1993. She went directly to the University of Michigan and earned a master's degree in social work.

Scott speaks with actor Angela Lansbury about her roots in England and in the musical theater.... and about her starring role in a new musical for television: 'Mrs. Santa Claus'. (airs Sunday night o

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including astronauts from the space shuttle Columbia; astronaut hannon Lucid; State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns; U.N. Ambassador and ecretary of State nominee Madeleine Albright; and Chairman of the Federal eserve Alan Greenspan.

Radio feature producer Sandy Tolan grew up in Wisconsin. He shares some thoughts about what the Superbowl means to him.

taking place in the breakaway Russian republic.

- Jacki talks with Bruce Harris, Director of Covenant House, a Latin America-based organization dedicated to helping the increasing numbers of homeless kids living on the streets of the region's cities. Harris is about to travel to Sweden with three of the kids to receive a humanitarian award.

and what the reaction has been so far on Capitol Hill.

formerly part of the Soviet Union, now an independent state. Uzbekistan is redefining its historical past. It now traces its origins to the 14th Century conqueror, Emir Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports on another hearing on Capitol Hill today, discussing the effects of possible chemical exposure during the Persian Gulf War. The Pentagon announced today that it is looking for scientists to conduct more studies on how low-level exposure to chemical weapons affects both people and animals. The research is part of the Pentagon's efforts to solve the mystery of why thousands of veterans who fought in the Gulf War have suffered a range of ailments including nausea, chronic fatigue and memory loss.

Thousands of new state laws also go into effect today. NPR's David Molpus reports that some of them deal with child support and driving under the influence of intoxicants.