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SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BILL FERRIS OF THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN CULTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI IN OXFORD ABOUT THE INCREASING POPULARITY OF THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND SOUTHERN CULTURE, IN THIS COUNTRY AND OVERSEAS.

WE PLAY EXCERPTS FROM A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER IN WASHINGTON D.C. WHERE FOUR REPUBLICAN SENATORS SANG IN HARMONY. THEY CALL THEMSELVES THE SENATE BARBERSHOP QUARTET.

of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, about the best ways to clear away all the snow.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Alex Crosby, a medical epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and author of a new report on suicide and the elderly. After many years of declining rates of suicide among persons 65 and older, the rates have started to increase.

Robert speaks with Dmitri (dih-MEE-tree) Trainin (TREN-nin), a military analyst at Carnegie Endowments Moscow Center. Mr. Treinin explains why the Russian military has had such problems stopping the Chechen rebels in Dagestan in southern Russia.

Director of the Center for Strategic studies at the University of Jordan about regional reaction to the events in Israel.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the vandalism of a reform Jewish center by apparent Orthodox Jews. The attack was the second in as many weeks on a non-Orthodox religious building in Israel.

Barbara visits a local hospital, and talks to men who are about to become fathers for the first time. She talks to them as they wait for their wives to have their babies in the Birthing Center at Columbia Hospital for Women, in Washington DC.

Linda talks with Andy Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the part Catholic voters will play in this year's presidential election. Traditionally, as a block, Catholics have voted as Democrats, but the abortion issue is attracting Catholics to the Republican party.

Robert talks to Aleksa Djilas, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, about the apparent winner in the Yugoslav election, Vojislav Kostunica. Djilas says Kostunica is not corrupt, has no ties to Milosevic, is educated, a legal scholar and respects the rule of law.