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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Jeanne Dyer from Randolph, New Jerse. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WNYC.)

Liane talks to Owen Ullman, Washington Editor of USA Today, about the meeting of the G-8 in Okinawa and the underlying hostility many European countries feel toward the US and its stress on economic efficiency.

Marianne McCune of member station WNYC reports that a new committee appointed to decide the future of Ellis Island is pushing to transform several crumbling buildings on the south side of the island into a center for tourists, scholars and world leaders.

Mitch Teich of member station KNAU reports on the unusual weather conditions in parts of the Western U.S. that are posing a danger to parks like Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Wildfires have broken out during a lapse in the normal wet season, and park employees face several challenges in stopping the blazes.

Quinn Klinefelter of member station WDET reports that promoters of the Detroit Grand Prix are hoping to move the car race from its current home on Bell Isle to a proposed site at the state fairgrounds. Michigan's Governor John Engler supports the idea, but Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer is opposed. Archer says although he supports a new site, the proposed fairground location, would cause too many problems for the surrounding residents.

Commentator Marit Haahr is a little unnerved by the growth of dot-com companies that provide service to your doorstep, like Kozmo.com. She says it's spontaneous human contact, as in video stores, that keeps us all from becoming shut-ins.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the new movie, X-Men.

Dan Tritle from Member Station WNAN on Nantucket reports that tomorrow morning, a Boston woman and a blind Australian man hope to become the first to swim from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket. The islands are off the Massachusetts coast, in often turbulent Atlantic waters.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the difficulties in resolving the issue of control over Jerusalem in the middle east peace process.

A small Mediterranean island comes alive when its fishermen pit their strength against their migrating prey, the bluefin tuna. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli went out to sea to witness this stunning ritual, called the Mattanza.

Weekend Edition Sunday essayist Diane Roberts has recently been in London for her annual visit and she offers a primer on the intricacies of properly feeding her British friends.

Liane talks to Ugandan musician Samite Mulondo about his new CD Stars to Share. Samite fled Uganda in the 1980s after one of his brothers was tortured and killed by government forces. He now lives in the United States, but has returned to Africa in the past few years, visiting refugee camps across the continent, sharing his music but also learning about music from refugees. (Stars to Share Windham Hill 01934 11426-2. Listeners may also go to http://www.samite.com)