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The Supreme Court today struck down sections of the 1992 Cable Act that restricted indecent programs on certain cable channels. But it upheld another provision that allowed individual cable companies to refuse to air such programs. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

- Daniel talks with Bruce Brock, a world champion auctioneer. Brock was giving lessons to passers-by at the annual Festival of American Folklife going on here in Washington D.C.

Edward Lifson talks with people in Chicago about why they don't vote.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

free tolls when traffic backs up, and starting Monday -- a 65 Miles-per-hour speed limit on parts of the thruway to the New York border.

The Smithsonian's celebration of the American South includes an array of terrific bands. Robert met with Michael Doucet (doo-SAY), the leader of the Cajun band Beausoleil (BOH-soh-LAY). He also listened to the Treme (TRAY-may) brass band from New Orleans, and the Birmingham Sunlights, a five-member a cappella (AH-kuh-PELL-uh) band.

From member station W-B-U-R, NPR's Tovia Smith reports that as excavations continue on Boston's Harbor Tunnel project, archeologists are nearing the place where colonists dumped tea into the harbor 222 years ago. They hold out a chance that they may find the wooden tea crates still in place. The dumping site of the tea crates was in deep waters two centuries ago but today it's solid landfill.

- Daniel talks with journalist Edward Humes about the state of the juvenile justice system in the United States. Humes spent a year in the Los Angeles juvenile court system which is the biggest in the country. He found that the courts were poorly funded, poorly staffed and unable to truly help families and problem kids. Humes has written a book about his experiences called "No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court." (Simon & Schuster)

have reached an out-of-court settlement under which the state no longer will shackle prisoners together on chain gangs. The Southern Poverty Law Center had sued Alabama in federal court, charging the practice violated the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Under the agreement, Alabama will continue to use prisoners on road crews, and their ankles will be shackled together, but they won't be chained to other inmates.

One aspect of campaigning that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has mastered is his ability to find some personal link to just about every place he visits. Either he was stationed there as a young military officer or he recuperated there after his war injury. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold gives examples from recent Dole campaign trips of this age-old political technique for connecting with voters.

A church service is held every Sunday in a junk yard on Chicago's South Side. The preacher is 82, the services are non-denominational, and the congregation is made up of the homeless as well as customers and employees of the junk yard. NPR'S Edward Lifson reports that those who attend the services say they don't need a pristine setting or a church to find God. (8:00) (IN S

Robert talks about the three-year-old Rottweiler, "Gator," who found the last survivor in the bombed Oklahoma City Federal building. Gator recently died after a fall in his owner's back yard.

- Daniel speaks with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who's covered the Middle East for more than 20 years. She's written a new book, called "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East" (Simon and Shuster). Judith and Danny talk about some of the Arab leaders attending the Cairo summit: Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Hafez el-Assad of Syria.

Linda talks with Mark Souder (SOW-der), Republican freshman from Indiana, about the Contract with America. Souder says it is time for the Republicans to regroup and go to a fallback strategy. He says that the Republican leadership has been too accommodating, and that individual members of Congress should vote independently, even if it causes tension within the party.

Samuel Hendren of member station of WUAL reports that many of the residents of the tiny community of Gees Bend, in Alabama are excited of the prospects that ferry service will be restored to their town after 30 years. The community, one of the poorest in the state, is located in an oxbow of the Alabama River, surrounded on three sides by water. Thirty-five years ago ferry service was terminated to prevent civil rights organizers from working with the residents, who are the descendents of former slaves. (s

as the number of African-Americans dwindles and the number of Latinos rises.

Reporter Nick van der Puy [PIE, like apple] visits the workshop of Ferdy Goode [FUR-dee GUDE] in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Goode makes old-fashioned snowshoes, by hand -- out of ash and woven rawhide.

British authorities are reporting an explosion aboard a bus in central London shortly before 6 p.m. eastern time. Danny talks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb.

Danny tells a story of fraud and greed in the art world. Late last year, David Ramus, (RAY-mus) a former art dealer, was convicted in an Atlanta (Georgia) court of fraud. The owner of a painting would ask Ramus to sell a painting on consignment. Ramus would sell the painting,but not tell the owner. Instead, Ramus would keep the money for himself. Ramus now says he never set out to cheat anybody and that he "chose clearly a wrong thing to do." The plot thickens: Last year, the publisher HarperCollins paid Ramus a one-million dollar advance for his first novel, THIEF OF LIGHT, a story about fraud set in the high-stakes 1980's art world. Ramus says he will use part of the proceeds from the book to pay back his former art clients. In this piece, we'll hear from Ramus; Atlanta journalist Vincent Coppola; Larry Ashmead, Executive Editor and Vice President, HarperCollins Publishers; and Constance Lowenthal of the International Foundation for Art Research.

Last week we asked our listeners to call into tell us about their first real kiss. Tonight we'll hear some of their stories.

A story for Valentine's Day from "The Sadness of Sex," called "Poison" told by Barry Yourgrau. (5:00) [An excerpt from the soundtrack to his upcoming film, "The Sadness of Sex."] FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY 0:59 =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD :59 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 10. TALKING TO TROOPS -- NPR's Andy Bowers reports from the American sector of the NATO implementation force zone in northern Bosnia. In spite of a more agressive position taken by NATO on behalf of the International War Crimes Tribunal, American soldiers don't expect to be apprehending indicted war criminals any time soon.

about his work, which evokes the Kentucky landscape of his boyhood. Crunk reads from his latest collection, which is titled, "Living in the Resurrection."

NPR'S Edward Lifson reports on what is believed to be the first drive-up boar semen facility. Run by the Fox family in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the artificial insemination facility provides semen from high-quality boars for Iowa's growing hog industry. When a farmer has a sow that is ready to be artificially inseminated, he just drives up and picks up his order.

had Noah held a yard sale after the biblical Great Flood.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the Republican candidates would do well to take some lessons from the results of the Iowa caucuses.