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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade where demonstrators marched through cold, blinding snow to protest the government of Slobodan Milosevic. This is the beginning of the second week of marching. At first the marchers were protesting an annulllment of municipal elections November 17th, but the protest has grown into demands for the ouster of Milosevic.

- In an attempt to give business majors some on-the-job training, Washington University in St. Louis is providing entrepreneurs with students to help them write up business plans. NPR's Chris Arnold reports the program provides business people with inexpensive help, the students with real-life business experience and the possibility of dividends for both if their joint efforts are successful.

President Clinton made a rare trip to Capitol Hill today to begin the budget negotiation process. He and congressional leaders came out of a meeting saying they had agreed to try to balance the budget by 2002. They also agreed to work on improving education, cutting taxes, and other items, although they still need to resolve their disparate approaches. NPR's Brian Naylor has a report.

Noah talks with Ken Auletta, who writes about the media for The New Yorker, about reports today that Michael Ovitz is stepping down as the number-two executive for the Walt Disney Company. Auletta says that Ovitz' apparent departure is not surprising to industry- watchers...there have been many tensions within the company in the last six months.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that President Clinton wants to send thousands of tutors out to help kids learn to read. Experts in the field say these tutors will help kids practice their reading, and that could make a big difference. But they say that kids with the most serious reading problems will still require trainined professionals to deal with their problems, and the President's proposal won't help them.

Police are advising commuters to stay home, as heavy rains follow a massive snow storm that dropped as much as 14 inches of snow in some areas of western Washington state. Art Hughes reports on how people in Seattle are coping with more snow and rain than they've seen in decades.

Eric Weiner reports from the West Bank city of Hebron that as Palestinian and Israeli negotiators hammer out the final technical details for the long-waited Israeli withdrawal from the city, the mood of both Palestinian and Israeli residents of the town remains glum and full of apprehension about what might happen next.

The White House announced an agreement with several airlines today, under which the carriers will make sure that their cargo holds have fire detectors. The decision is a result of the ValuJet crash in the Everglades that killed 110 people last May. Investigators say the accident was caused by fire in the cargo hold. NPR's Steve Inskeep has a report.

Phyllis Joffe reports on a program that has been teaching children in impoverished neighborhoods in Pittsburgh how to work with ceramics. The program, now thirty years old, has grown to beome one of the country's most successful art centers and a model for community development. (12:00) (S

The Democratic National Committee today announced new procedures to screen campaign contributions and to help it comply with federal election law. The DNC was criticized during the election for accepting contributions from foreigners and foreign companies and for dismantling similar screening procedures in 1994 for budgetary reasons. NPR's Peter Overby reports.