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This past week, dieters learned some bad news: even if you lose weight, your body will still fight to return to its old weight. Gwen Machsai reflects on the endless battle over weightloss.

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NPR's Margo Adler reports on the aftermath of yesterday's vote that ousted the NAACP's chairman. The new chair, Myrlie Evers-Williams, inherits an organization that is deep and debt and whose image has been tarnished by allegations of mismanagement.

Craig speaks with Dr. Irwin Hyman, author of the book The Case Against Spanking. Dr. Hyman says if the United States banned spanking, the incidence of violence and child abuse would decrease. He strongly criticizes the continued use of corporal punishment in many school districts.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

WEEKEND EDITION WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR TALKS ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WITH RALPH NEAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND CLINT BLOCK, VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF LITIGATION FOR THE WASHINGTON, D.C.-BASED INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE.

NPR'S ALEX CHADWICK GOES TO NEW HAMPSHIRE WHERE AS MANY AS NINE REPUBLICANS MAY BE CAMPAIGNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, BUT IT'S BEEN VERY QUIET FOR THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE PUTTING ALL THEIR EGGS IN BILL CLINTON'S BASKET.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new book, "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhatten in the 1920s" by Ann Douglas. (Farrar, Straus & G

NPR'S BRENDA WILSON REPORTS ON ALLEGATIONS BY A CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATION THAT LINKS SURGEON GENERAL NOMINEE DR. HENRY FOSTER WITH THE NOTORIOUS TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT.

Surgeon General nominee Henry Foster today disputed the latest charges against him and denied any knowledge or involvement in the notorious Tuskegee Experiment. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

Daniel visits an exhibit of household items from Elizabethan England at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Curator Leena Cowan Orlin says that it's relatively easy to imagine what life was like back then because a detailed inventory was kept of every item in the home.

Fresh Air prison correspondent Wilbert Rideau, editor emeritus of The Angolite, the award-winning magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, talks about dying in prison. With longer sentences and fewer paroles, inmates are beginning to die in prison. Rideau -- who is serving a life sentence at Angola -- recently spoke with a dying inmate, a prison nurse and a warden who handles funeral arrangements.