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NPR's Rick Karr reports from Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, about the beginning of the cleanup after the area's devastation by flood waters.

Weekend Edition's Dan Schorr speaks with Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Mississippi State Attorney General Michael Moore about the ongoing tobacco settlement discussions and this week's ruling on FDA jurisdiction over tobacco.

Cliff Island, Maine. Its population is small and getting smaller. Next year the one room schoolhouse may be down to one student, a situation islanders fear could soon lead to its closure. To counter the trend, year-round residents are actively recruiting outsiders to move to the island. Andrea de Leon of Maine Public Radio reports.

on the small but growing network of reformers who want to change the laws for campaign financing on the state and local level. Legislatures in some 20 states are being asked to make the changes.

With the volunteerism set to begin this weekend, NPR's Eric Westerveldt looks at the Quakers, the pacifist religious group that has made volunteerism an act of faith.

Daniel talks with Madeleine Burnside, co-author of "Spirits of the Passage", a new book which traces the journey of an 18th century slave ship which went down off the coast of Florida in the 1700's. . Burnside says though slaves were kept under tight control throughout the journey from Africa, many would still try to throw themselves overboard and to certain death rather than spend the rest of their days as slaves in the 'New World'.

Joined by former Presidents Bush and Carter, President Bill Clinton today opened a three day National Volunteer Summit in Philadelphia. Eric Westervelt brings us a report from Philadelphia.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says the key to making any "volunteer" program work is cooperation between the public and private sectors.

In the last few weeks, thousands of Albanian refugees have been streaming into Italy through the port city of Brindisi. Robert talks with Orla Guerin, the Southern Europe correspondent for the BBC, about the Italian government's plans to send many of them back to Albania.

A live on stage conversation between film critic ROGER EBERT and film director MARTIN SCORSESE, held at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio in February. They discuss the scope of SCORSESE's career. (THIS CONVERSATION WILL CONTINUE INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

In a small rural town in Massachusetts, there is a thriving business surrounding a car that hasn't been made in some thirty years. The Corvair... the car that launched the public safety career of Ralph Nader... was discontinued after concerns about the design of the car were made public. Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston visited a business that sells parts for Corvairs... which still have a loyal following after all these years, both here in America and around the world.

Linda talks with Dr. Harmon Eyre, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, and Dr. Robert Lawrence, a professor of Health Policy and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, about the controversy surrounding the recommendation of mammograms for women over 40 years of age.