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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 Judy Pozar from Leverett, Massachusetts. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WNPI, Amherst.)

Jacki talks with Jacques Klein, the head of the U.N. Mission in Bosnia about a memorial service held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the massacre of more than seven thousand Bosnian Muslims, mostly men and boys. This week, thousands of women returned to the Serb-controlled Srebenica, many for the first time.

Jacki speaks with Jany Hansal, the President of DESA, a woman's humanitarian organization based in Dubrovnic, Croatia. Since 1993, DESA has been helping former refugees from the Balkan Wars cope with loss and tragedy in their lives by reviving the ancient crafts of their region. For more on DESA, go to http://desa.dubrovnik.org. (5:00) (Note: Site will open in a new browser window.)

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including White House spokesman Joe Lockhart on the Middle East summit at Camp David; former South African President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the international AIDS conference; Texas governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore at the NAACP Convention in Baltimore; Judge Robert Kaye, who presided over the civil lawsuit in Miami against the top five tobacco companies; Phillip Morris attorney Dan Webb and smokers' attorney Stanley Rosenblatt on the $145 billion punitive damages verdict.

Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa speaks to the participants of the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. We have an excerpt of his remarks.

After a Florida jury announced a $145 billion verdict against the nation's biggest tobacco companies, the companies' lawyers say they will appeal. They also say, that if forced to pay, the settlement will bankrupt the tobacco giants. Anti-smoking activists disagree. NPR's Jim Zarolli reports.

NPR's Richard Knox reports from Durban, South Africa on a little-noticed study at this year's AIDS Conference. It found that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, is older than anyone suspected.

As the captains of geekdom battle over wireless standards, Weekend Edition Information Age Specialist Rich Dean says cell phones and handheld gadgets just aren't ready for prime time on the Web.

Liane reads letters from listeners.

Cuban Americans in Miami today launched a flotilla of small ships headed for waters off Cuba. The anti-Castro exercise is to mark the anniversary of the death of 41-Cubans who fled the country six years ago on a tugboat. NPR's Phillip Davis has the story.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on a Massachusetts-based internet startup that plans to take the idea behind frequent flyer programs and apply it to an entirely new area: college savings. UPROMISE says it is signing up credit card companies, grocery chains, car companies and will take the rebates these companies offer and put them in a college savings investment account. Financial advisors are skeptical that such programs are a good idea for most people.

Linda talks with Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the center's latest poll on how the presidential candidates' messages are playing with the public.