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As people stay in the work force longer, some can look for inspiration to Martha Smith of Vineland , Kan., who has held the same job at the Coal Creek Library for most of the past 76 years. Frank Morris from member station KCUR reports.

A legislative measure under consideration would make it more difficult for refugees to enter the traditionally neutral haven of Switzerland. Conservative politicians want to allow fewer asylum seekers. Emma Jane Kirby reports.

Host Steve Inskeep reads letters from All Things Considered listeners.

A boat carrying two Palestinians explodes, killing both men and wounding four members of an Israeli naval patrol off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Israel bans Palestinian boat traffic in the area. And an army probe of a U.N. aid worker's death on the West Bank is blamed on an accidental shooting by an Israeli soldier. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Earlier this month, the Bush administration proposed a scheme by which government printing jobs could be outsourced to private companies, thus ending the virtual monopoly held by the Government Printing Office. Host Liane Hansen speaks with former director of the Library and Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Miriam Drake, about the concern that this may lead to a sharp drop-off in the amount of information made available to the general public.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Isobel Barnhill from Rochester, Minnesota. She listens to Weekend Edition on member stations KLSE and KZSE in Rochester.)

U.S. officials say they have al Qaeda's director of Persian Gulf operations in custody. Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the latest developments in the war on terror.

The United States considers putting conditions on food aid to North Korea in response to that country's admission that it has a nuclear weapons program. Moderates in the Bush administration are calling for a diplomatic solution. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

Ruth Stone, 87, wins the National Book Award for poetry for her eighth book of verse, In the Next Galaxy. She talks with NPR's Liane Hansen.

A poem about Sept. 11 written by New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka has many state residents calling for his ouster, including essayist Alfred Lubrano.