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Liane speaks with NPR's Mark Schramm about the 31st Super Bowl contest, to be held tonight in New Orleans. The New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers are vying for football's top honor. Liane and Mark discuss team strategy, the news about Patriot's coach Bill Parcells (who may jump to another team after the game) and the hoopla surrounding the game and the television broadcast.

Host Liane Hansen is joined by David Corn of The Nation agazine and Kate O'Beirne (O-BURN) of The National Review magazine in a iscussion of the week's top news events, including, the American cruise issile attacks in Iraq, the public admission by Russian President Boris eltsin that he will undergo heart surgery, and how Bob Dole and President linton will incorporate good news on the economy into their campaigns for the hite House.

Some Americans with compromised immune systems can now get a booster shot. The Senate gives a boost to two top Biden priorities.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports George W. Bush says he's making education his top priority when he takes office. He has an advantage. Congress just approved the single largest increase in educational funds. Now, Bush's plan is to give states a block sum in the form of grants and each state can deem best how to use it.

Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, plays a pivotal role in both policy and politics. He has gotten credit for the Republican victories in the midterm elections and for the president's high popularity ratings. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Mechanical engineer Don Gilmore has the key to a persistent musical problem: how to keep a piano perpetually in tune. The top-selling line of Story-Clark grand pianos will soon be outfitted with Gilmore's self-tuning device. Hear from Gilmore and NPR's John Ydstie.

Later this year, a group of women from across North America will attempt to ski to the North Pole. If successful, they'll become the first women to reach the top of the world without the use of dog sleds or ships. Nicole Walton of member station WNMU talks with the members of the expedition as they prepare for their journey.

She edited such films as The Hustler, Bonnie and Clyde, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Wonder Boys, which has just been re-released. Her Hollywood career began in the 1940s as an apprentice editor. Today shes arguably the highest paid and one of the top five film editors in the business. Allens been nominated twice for Academy awards.

A top U.S. envoy today held out the prospect of energy and other forms of assistance for North Korea if Pyongyang abandons nuclear weapons development. The Bush Administration says it will not reward North Korea's threatening behavior. But analysts say Washington could help Pyongyang in indirect ways to resolve the current stand-off. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

As Robert Iger prepares to take over the top position at Walt Disney Co., he must step out of the shadow cast by current chief Michael Eisner. Eisner is scheduled to step down in the fall after a period of transition.