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NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Wendy Becler from Minneapolis, Minn. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KNOW in Minneapolis.

NPR's Tony Cox discusses hotly contested U.S. Senate races with NPR's Ken Rudin and Dr. Ron Walters, professor of Politics at the University of Maryland.

After more than a century, the Olympic Games return to Greece, a country where they were born nearly 3,000 years ago. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli visited the ruins of ancient Olympia where the original games were held to honor the Greek god Zeus.

NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Alexandra Hahn from Providence, R.I. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WRNI in Providence.

The White House has insisted it could not have predicted the events of Sept. 11. But NPR's Mike Shuster reports on Morning Edition that U.S. agencies had plenty of clues in the months prior to the attacks. NPR Online has a timeline.

Peter Gabriel releases Up, his first studio album in 10 years. Liane Hansen talks with Gabriel about the new album, what he's been doing for the past decade, the soundtracks he's written, and the big apes he works with.

Peter Gerica is a fisherman living on Bayou Savage in East New Orleans. He and his wife have had a tough time since their home was flattened by flood and tornado during Hurricane Katrina.

He began as a carpenter's apprentice. Now, four decades later, Joseph Volpe will leave New York's Metropolitan Opera after 16 years as general manager. Volpe talks to Lynn Neary about moving on.

A new report from the International Crisis Group says that Zimbabwe is rapidly self-destructing. The problems in the country are compounded by a lack of leadership in both the ruling party and the political opposition. Meanwhile, inflation is galloping forward; it could reach 3,000 percent.

McGill University neuroscientist Dr. Daniel Levitin will attach sensors to Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, five musicians and 50 audience members. The goal: measure physiological responses to the music.