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Day - Danny asks listeners to call the Weekend All Things Considered Valentine's Day Hotline in order to pass on the pet names they call their loved ones. The number is (202) 408-5183. Callers should leave at least their first names and where they're calling from...unless of course they're too embarrassed in which case just a location will do.

David Baron of member station W-B-U-R in Boston reports on a woman who has spent her life in and around doctors. Now she's become a patient and is battling cancer. She is hoping to pass on her first hand experiences to other doctors.

Jacki Lyden visits several arts organizations in Baltimore and discusses the relationship between private and public funding. As politicans speak of defunding the National Endowment for the Arts, agencies which receive that money say they are responsibile to public tastes and make that money go further than ever before. But, without it, art in America will be damaged, they claim...even if the amounts they receive are really quite small.

NPR'S TOM GJELTEN REPORTS ON THE GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE, WHICH BEGINS TODAY. ONE ISSUE ON THE GOVERNORS' MINDS IS THE MOVE TO SHIFT POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AWAY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND TOWARD THE STATES.

SCOTT AND WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT TALKS WITH ROBERT SAMUELSON, ECONOMIC COLUMNIST WITH NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE AND THE WASHINGTON POST, ABOUT THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, PASSED THIS WEEK BY THE HOUSE, AND WHY MANY POLITICIANS LIKE IT, BUT AN EQUALLY LARGE NUMBER OF ANALYSTS WHO DON'T HAVE TO FACE VOTERS DON'T.

Daniel talks with freelance journalist Shane Cave who covers business and economics in New Zealand. Cave compares analyzes what's happend in New Zealand in the 10 years since a new political party was voted in and radically changed the way the government there did business. He also talks of how the political changes there are similar to what the Republican Party here wants to do.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead visits Kobe in Japan after a day's rain has further hampered efforts to rescue people trapped by Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Magistead reports that the only foreign assistance the Japanese government has accepted are Swiss army dogs which are trained to resuce people trapped by avalanches and earthquakes, but these dogs are not finding their task easy.

This past week, a handful of Senate republicans called for the ouster of Senator Mark Hatfield as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee as punishment for Hatfield's failure to vote in favor of the balanced budget amendment. The effort failed, and prompted these comments from a democratic supporter of the amendment, Senator James Exon of Nebraska.

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE NOW BEING SOLD MORE IN OFFICES AND FACTORIES BY PARENT, RATHER THAN DOOR-TO-DOOR BY THE GIRL SCOUTS, BECAUSE PARENTS ARE FEARFUL OF HAVING THEIR CHILDREN ON THE STREET.