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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Kobe Japan. She follows around police officials who are helping people cope with this weeks devastating earthquake.

Essayist Elizabeth Schilling (shill-ing) learns a lesson bout Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from an unsuspected source: her daughter.

Liane Hansen speaks with multimedia performance and ecording artist Laurie Anderson about her first album in more than four years, Bright Red" (Warner Brothers, CD# 9 45534 2). Laurie joins us from her studio n SOHO, New York, as she prepares for her national performance tour that begins his spring.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the numbers involved in the debate on welfare reform. There are many statistics on welfare, and politicans involved in the issue have been choosing stats that support their point of view.

NPR's Ann Cooper attends the funeral of Joe Slovo, a long time South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and Communist Party. She has this remembrance.

Daniel visits the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation in Washington state. In recent years, the tribe has experienced an unusually high rate of negative pregnancy outcomes. After three years of antagonism with the federal Indian Health Service, they have been improving the quality of their health care.

House speaker Newt Gingrich has called for abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts. We discuss the pros and cons of federal funding of the Arts with: 1) Art critic HILTON KRAMER. He is the founder of the Arts magazine, "The New Criterion," and is former chief art critic for The New York Times. He has also published several volumes of criticism. KRAMER is against federal funding for the arts. 2) JOHN BRADEMUS is Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and former Democratic Congressman from Indiana. He also helped write the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

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T-V Critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new Star Trek series, "Star Trek: Voyager" on the new network United Paramount Network (UPN).

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Former U.S. President JIMMY CARTER. He's written eight books since his presidency, including several memoirs. His newest book is a collection of his poems, "Always a Reckoning: and other Poems," (Random House). Terry will talk with him about his poetry, and about his diplomacy work, most recently, negotiating agreements in Bosnia and Haiti. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF

2: 1) LYNN MUNSON is former Special Assistant to Chairman Lynn Cheney at the NEA, under President Bush. She is now a Research Associate at the American Enterprise Institute, a Conservative Think Tank. 2) PAUL GOLDBERGER is The New York Times' Chief Cultural Correspondent. He is also a former architecture critic. (GOLDBERGER's interview continues after the ATC promo).