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All Things Considered remembers a 30-year-old who did not make it to our birthday: Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. It was torn down on Feb. 11, 2001 to make room for a new, retro ballpark.

A montage about all of the technological changes 30-year-olds have seen in their lives.

NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Damascus on fears of widening conflict in the Middle East. Tensions are growing between Israel and Syria over that country's support for Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports from San Francisco on venture capitalists -- the money machine behind the Silicon Valley tech boom -- and what they've learned from the dot-com crash.

Kevin Whitehead continues his Avant Garde Made Easy series with a look at pianist Cecil Taylor.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome where media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi is the front-runner in the upcoming Italian general elections. Berlusconi is charged with a conflict of interest by his opponents, who fear that his vast business holdings would compromise the office. Berlusconi's candidacy even has the other heads of Europe worried.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that American diplomats in China met for a third time today with the detained U.S. air crew, characterizing them as in "very high spirits." But it's not clear how much longer the crew and their downed airplane will be held, as China holds out for an official apology from the U.S. government.

On Friday the Senate passed a budget resolution that reduces the President's proposed tax cut and significantly increases spending on health care. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Health Policy Reporter Julie Rovner about what the Senate's plan would pay for.

We return to the National Story Project and Paul Auster for more of your stories.

Scott talks with two of the thirteen people who took a Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in 1961. At the time he joined the ride, B. Elton Cox was minister living in High Point, North Carolina. Edward Blankenheim was a student at the University of Arizona.

In honor of their upcoming centennial, the town of Macclesfield, NC has passed a temporary town ordinance requiring all men to grow beards. Scott talks with Ed Drew, chairman of the Beard Growing Commission.

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell reviews the movie Memento.