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Commentator Paul Durrenberger says that the Superbowl is one of our main national observances. It is purified ritual and as gripping as any celebration that was invented earlier. He figures we must be a nation starved for drama -- so much so that we have to create our own. We lack the public spectacles of the Romans, Greeks and Mayas and so we demand it from our professional sports.

Satire from Harry Shearer.

due to go before the Supreme Court today on the copyright relating to computer software. >

editor of "Inside Track" magazine, about what will be the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, called "Superman: The Escape".

Linda Wertheimer speaks with sports reporter Robin Roberts of ABC and ESPN about this week's major sports activities. They include the Australian Open tennis finals, NBA All-Star voting, Rudy Galindo's figure skating victory and, of course, the Super Bowl.

NPR's John Burnett reports that while most prisons across the country are trying to make life more difficult for prisoners (cutting back funding for basketball courts, initiating chain gangs, etc.), in Texas, which has the nation's largest prison population, prisoners are being given more access to one perk: the telephone. But Burnett says from the prison perspective, there's a business incentive for the move.

Satirist Harry Shearer suggests that the GOP plan to eliminate Federal jobs could be helped by an effort to find private support for individual workers. He has Newt Gingrich pitching for folks to help one Air Traffic Controller. By sponsoring this this air traffic controller, the sponsor can find out how many collisions have been avoided by her and who she's dating.

A conversation with a good samaritan in Philadelphia. Linda Wertheimer talks to Gina Licciardello (Litch-are-del-oh), who cooked pasta for a bus full of people - stranded by the snow for 17 hours - outside her South Philadelphia home.

Commentator Elissa Ely's dog always makes friends when they go for walks -- so many so that Elissa thinks he needs his own Rolodex.

- in the days before the Palestinian elections, which take place January 20.