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NPR's Linda Gradstein in Bethlehem reports the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza has had a devastating affect on the Palestinian economy. Israel has also suffered economic losses.

In West Virginia, wild turkey hunting season is underway. About ten-thousand of the birds are bagged annually in the state. Hunters try to imitate the turkeys' call to attract them. Dan Heyman of West Virginia Public Radio has a report on the art, science and sport of turkey calling.

Richard Galpin of the BBC reports that the former head of the Indonesian armed forces, General Wiranto has released an album of love songs. He says the money it raises will be used to help the victims of violence across Indonesia, including in East Timor. General Wiranto was named by the National Human Rights Commission as being morally responsible for the violence in East Timor last year.

NPR's Eric Westervelt has the story of the 1964 recording, A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane. It's a four part piece that expresses Coltrane's faith in God. And it's part of the NPR 100 -- NPR's list of most important American musical works of the last century. (12:30) View the enitre NPR 100 list at: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Biarritz, France on today's meeting between newly elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and 15 European Union heads of state. The group offered support to the new president for rebuilding the war-torn country.

NPR's Anne Garrells reports on the state of the post-Milosevic economy in Yugoslavia.

Lisa talks with Bruce Cumings, from Stanford University, about the South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who this week was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Host Lisa Simeone visits Southway Bowling Lanes, a neighborhood duckpin bowling alley in South Baltimore, which closes later this month. Lisa talks to Southway manager Alva Brown, who's worked there for 42 years, and Pat Turner, the developer who will remodel the property after October 31st.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on the future of the Middle East; Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian spokesman Hanan Ashrawi; Palestinian Mahti Bedowi; President Bill Clinton; Secretary of Defense William Cohen on the bombing of the USS Cole; Operations Specialist Jerome Ferret on the Cole.

Steven Dudley reports from Colombia on a recent rash of kidnappings of foreign nationals working in that country, and how it is affecting Colombia's economic growth.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks back at presidential debates in recent decades and detects a pattern about when telling moments happened in the past.

Weekend Edition Popular Culture Commentator Steven Stark looks at the media's trend to talk with ordinary voters for their opinions about political debates.