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Robert talks with Teresa Tritch, Washington bureau chief of Money magazine, about the economic premise behind the flat tax, an idea that figures prominently in some Republican presidential campaigns. Tritch explains who the winners and losers would be if such a tax code were implemented.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today on the all-male status of the Virginia Military Institute. The Clinton Administration wants state-supported VMI to open its doors to women. But an attorney for Virginia and the school say the school should be allowed to remain all-male. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports that the high court's ruling could set a precedent for women's rights.

WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR EXAMINES THE PROSPECTS FOR THE BUDGET TALKS...AND HOW THEY'RE PLAYING AROUND AMERICA, WITH FORMER CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE DIRECTOR ROBERT REISCHAUER AND WITH PROFESSOR ALAN GITELSON OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY IN CHICAGO.

SIMON/ELVIS: ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE NEW MOVIE "WAITING TO EXHALE"

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the Syrian-Israeli peace talks being held at Wye Plantation in Maryland are showing some signs of progress.

Noah speaks with Christina Bokenkamp, a 17-year-old junior at Kearney (CAR-ney) High School in Kearney, Nebraska. She and her schoolmates were trapped overnight yesterday at school by the heavy snows and ice that paralyzed the Midwest. It was a memorable adventure, but she does regret not having brought a tooth brush.

Noah talks with Mike O'Connor in Sarajevo about problems with enforcing the details of the Dayton peace agreement. Bosnian Serbs have set up checkpoints to control the movement of Bosnian Muslims...checkpoints that go against the agreement. However, NATO says it can't get involved in the details of enforcing all the elements of the agreement.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Steve Bauer, executive director of the non-profit Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund, based in Littleton, Colorado. He tells how applications for loans are flooding in from all over the country by employees hurt by the federal budget stalemate.

Today's issue of the scientific journal Nature reports that crows reshape twigs and leaves to get to insects that the birds normally couldn't reach. The clever crows live on the island of New Caladonia, northwest of Australia.

Mary Jo Draper from member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, reports on a severe winter storm that tore across the Plains and parts of the Southwest yesterday and today. Several states including Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma were frozen by sleet, snow and wind. In parts of Minnesota and North Dakota, high-winds have blown the snow into huge drifts, shutting down highways and in some places keeping snow plows off the roads.