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NPR's Scott Simon reviews the week's news with NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.

NPR's Scott Simon looks at the matchups for Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVII with Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Ron Rapoport.

NPR's Scott Simon talks once again with Esquire magazine editor A.J. Jacobs, who is reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica in an effort to become the world's smartest person. He's up to the letter "H" and has discovered that the single-best way to become a subject of the immense reference work is to be beheaded.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life of cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who died this week at the age of 81.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the seemingly bizarre possibility that Libya could chair the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

The NFL's Washington Redskins ask Virginia lawmakers to exclude players injured on the field from workers' compensation benefits. The NFL Players Union is fighting the move. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

Super Bowl Sunday has turned into a major launching pad for ad campaigns. Highlights this year include a controversy over Miller Lite's beer ad featuring buxom, brawling women and Cadillac's continuing Led Zeppelin motif. And BMW is using a Web site to offer short films in an innovative promotional effort. NPR's Scott Simon and Barbara Lippert, ad critic for Adweek magazine.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Randall of the Texas Chili Parlor in Austin about the $41 hamburger he made last week using 24.2 pounds of ground beef. Mr. Randall says that his project was inspired by an innate Texas desire not to be outdone by a $41 Kobe beef burger now on sale at the Homestead in New York. The Texas burger was roughly the size of a manhole cover. It fed 50 people and was served on a specially baked bun.

Filmmaker Ismail Merchant, of Merchant and Ivory fame, publishes a memoir called My Passage from India. It traces his steps from star-struck youngster in India to major force in the movie world. Merchant speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Chris Butler's group The Waitresses had some hits in the 1980s -- especially "I Know What Boys Like" and "Christmas Wrapping." But his latest CD, The Museum of Me, is a collection of new songs recorded on old equipment, including wax cylinders, wire recorders and antique tape machines.