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Daniel visits 84-year old identical twins who teach physics at the University of Maryland. The Slawsky brothers, Mitch and Zack, talk about their eight decades together.

ROOSEVELT: MARCH 4TH USED TO BE INAUGURATION DAY AND 62 YEARS AGO TODAY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT DELIVERED HIS FIRST INAUGURATION SPEECH WHICH WAS BROADCAST OVER THE RADIO. WE HEAR SOME OF IT.

Danny speaks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about President Bill Clinton's meeting today with governors. They met to discuss welfare, childrens issues and unfunded mandates.

Mark Roberts reports on a new survey issued by the National Transportation Safety Board which says that fatigue contributes to as many as 40 percent of truck accidents on the nation's interstate highways.

With block grants being the new mantra for how to allocate federal dollars, NPR's Jon Greenberg profiles a community in Baltimore that went from burned out buildings to a revitalized neighborhood with the block grant scheme.

Commentator Amy Wu (woo) talks about the nonchalant attitude that her teenage peers have about sex. It wasn't until AIDS patients spoke at her school, that students realized the dangerous consequences of unprotected sex.

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK BASEBALL...WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY PLAY?

Daniel talks with NPR's David Welna about the crackdwon on the Zapitista rebels in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The Mexican government announced this week that because talks between the Zapitistas and the government have broken down, the government has decided to arrest the leaders of the group.

NPR'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALKS WITH SENATOR ORRIN HATCH (R-UT), AND DR. LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS, ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S BUDGET AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

Daniel talks to Tom Levenson, author of "Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science" (Simon and Schuster). Levenson says that during the Enlightenment, scientists thought that they could explain and understand everything in the universe, but that really isn't true.