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NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on today's municipal election in Paris. Because of recent government corruption scandals, Parisians may select liberal candidates for the first time in100 years.

Commentator Susan Arnout Smith demands zero tolerance for cruelty as a reaction to this past week's shootings in Santee, CA.

As song-swapping service Napster braces to block 135,000 titles drawn up by record companies in compliance of a federal injunction, Weekend Edition technology commentator Rich Dean offers his thoughts on the continuing online music wars.

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta takes us to the Everett family barn in Suwanee, Georgia. Every Saturday night since 1964, folks from all over come to the Everett Barn to listen to bluegrass music.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan's unsuccessful appeal to leaders of Afghanistan's Islamic Taliban government to stop the destruction of two huge Buddha statues. Secretary Annan was told that the statues, which are carved from a rock cliff near the central Afghan town of Bamian , are mostly destroyed.

Whitehead reviews the complete Blue Note sessions of tenor saxophonist Don Wilkerson.

A sample of residents from Seattle offer their reactions to Vice-President Dick Cheney's hospitalization for heart problems.

Vice President Cheney went home from the hospital today, one day after undergoing an operation to reopen an artery to his heart. The angioplasty was performed at George Washington University Hospital, not far from the White House. Doctors there canceled plans for a briefing today on the vice president's condition. Mr. Cheney is expected to return to work later this week, although White House staff were not discussing any details of his case. NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea reports.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes how important it is that citizens perceive political leaders to be healthy.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a new study showing no link between a commonly used childhood vaccine and autism. The 14-year-long study in California kindergartens failed to find an association between a rise in reported autism cases in the state and the MMR vaccine. The research appears in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that the Senate has overturned a law that would have required businesses to protect their workers from repetitive stress injuries. Business leaders say this so-called "ergonomics rule" would cost them too much.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on a new report from a U.N. panel on global climate change. It says that extreme weather events, like huge snowstorms and floods, are becoming more frequent, and may be signs of the slow process of global warming.