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Days after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated a huge swath of Japan, the nation faces immediate fears of a nuclear disaster and longer-term worries about assisting millions of people in need of food, water and shelter.

In 2006, voters angry about Iraq and frustrated with President George W. Bush sent a new class of senators to Washington. In The Upper House, Terence Samuel profiles these legislators as they come to terms with the grunt work and gridlock of their new jobs.

We continue our rebroadcast of our series on American Popular Song with a tribute to ragtime composer and performer Eubie Blake. He was born on February 7,1883 in Baltimore, Md. He wrote the songs for the Broadway hit Shuffle Along. African American ragtime musicians of the day sought out Eubie to write their songs. Two of Eubie Blake's best known songs are "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and "Love Will Find A Way." Just over one hundred years after his life began, on February 12, 1983, Eubie Blake died in Brooklyn, New York. We'll present a concert with singer Vernel Bagneris and pianist Dick Hyman and feature theater historian Robert Kimball. Singer Vernel Bagneris co-starred in the Broadway musical "The Life." He also co-created and starred in a Jelly Roll Morton revue, and the New Orleans music revue "One Mo' Time." Dick Hyman is an expert in piano styles of the teens, twenties and thirties. He has also composed music for several Woody Allen movies. Kimball rediscovered Blake in the the late 60's and co-authored the book "Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake." Kimball is also the co-author of "The Gershwins, and editor of "The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter." (ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 5/28/98)12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00...

Stephen Greenblatt chronicles the unlikely discovery of Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things" — by a 15th-century Italian book hunter. The Swerve is a masterfully written meditation on the fragile inheritance of ideas.

Transportation safety authorities say they had warned Washington's Metro system to upgrade its old subway cars, but the transit system did not do so. The age of the equipment is one aspect of the investigation into Monday's crash in which one train smashed into the rear of another stationary train. At least nine people were killed.

Buried under the drifts in Washington, D.C., we turn to artful descriptions of snow from some favorite writers — in the hands of a good storyteller, snow can be magical, or monstrous. We sample works from Ezra Jack Keats, Laura Ingalls Wilder and, of course, Robert Frost.

NPR's Tom Goldman speaks with Liane Hansen about the hoopla urrounding Super Bowl week, and prognosticates on the outcome of tonight's game etween the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

A federal grand jury has indicted former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, charging him with one count of obstruction of Congress, three counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury.

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The country icon talks about her new album, Hard Bargain, and reflects on her brief time working with Gram Parsons before his death in 1973.