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Lisa talks with Jeanne Thaggard of Austin, Texas. In the 1920s, Thaggard's parents met through the exchange of a message in a shirt pocket, sent from the Montgomery Ward shipping center.

The 50th annual National Basketball Association All Star Game will be played today in Washington. Pro basketball boomed during the 1980s and '90s, thanks to Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and other charismatic, and highly-marketable, players. But how is the league doing today, with a new wave of younger, more controversial stars? Liane talks with New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Sergeant Rob MacLean, Public Information Officer for the United States Park Police on the White House shooting; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle; new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; and Darrell Ames, spokesman for the US Navy Pacific Fleet.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the ways in which genome research has helped scientists and doctors identify genes that cause illnesses.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where this past week there was concern that the deadly ebola virus may have entered the country. An African woman who arrived there developed symptoms that could have been caused by the virus. Tests ruled out ebola, but the woman remains very ill.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports from California's Central Valley, where farmers are bracing for power shortages that could have an impact well beyond the state.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Harriet Solomon from Springfield, Virginia. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WETA in Washington, DC.)

NPR's Elaine Korry reports from San Francisco, where the power crisis and rising heating bills have caused record numbers of poor households to apply for financial help to pay their utility bills.

Linda Wertheimer interviews the authors of two new thrillers: Michael Connelly, about A Darkness More Than Night, and Evan Hunter, about his collaboration with Ed McBain to write Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts. Connelly's book takes main characters from other novels -- an LAPD detective and a retired FBI investigator -- and pits them against one another. Hunter, an acclaimed author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, wrote the first half of Candyland, then looked to his alter-ego for the second half, when it becomes more of a murder mystery. (7:45) A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly, is published by Little, Brown, ISBN # 0-316-15407-5. Candyland, by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain is published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN # 0-7432-1316-5.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon on the US and British attacks on five Iraqi targets.

Designing a mission that could last longer than 50 years presents unusual challenges that have nothing to do with technology.

While US and British planes were bombing targets in Iraq, President Bush was in Mexico for his first foreign visit. Melinda speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is with the President.