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Liane reads copy on the return to the United States yesterday of the bodies of five sailors who died in the attack on the USS Cole last week. Sailors injured in the blast have been flown to a U-S military hospital in Germany, and about 100 investigators from the United States are expected to arrive in Yemen by the end of the weekend in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks back at presidential debates in recent decades and detects a pattern about when telling moments happened in the past.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Chris Hoffman from Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.)

Liane speaks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about presidential campaign activity in the wake of developments in the Middle East and on the eve of the final debate in St. Louis on Tuesday between Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush.

A new law restricting the number of years families can remain on welfare has taken effect in Ohio, where some 3,800 families will no longer receive monthly checks from the government. Another 1,900 will go off the rolls next month. Bill Cohen from Ohio Public Radio reports that welfare advocates are up in arms about it.

Weekend Edition Popular Culture Commentator Steven Stark looks at the media's trend to talk with ordinary voters for their opinions about political debates.

Liane speaks with Oxford University Fellow Theodore Zeldin about his new book Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives. (Hidden Spring). Zeldin says it's time for a NEW conversation that includes all of society and all aspects of our lives.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda has killed 39 people, an infected dozens more. Noah talks to Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, Medical Superintendent for Saint Mary Locar Hospital in the town of Gulu, where a team from the World Health Organization arrived today. Lukwiya says that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization will be helpful in setting up laboratories to help with early detection of the Ebola virus.

Commentator Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer prize winning author who has written two books about disease in Africa, says though much about Ebola is a mystery, there is also a lot experts do know. She says the spread of the Ebola virus has been aided by the squalor of third-world hospitals, corruption and war. And she makes an argument for the first world to get involved in the fight against Ebola.

The newest CD by jazz violinist Regina Carter, Motor City Moments, features compositions by her fellow Detroit natives like vibraphonist Milt Jackson and Marvin Gaye. Carter is garnering recognition for her jazz interpretations of pop-based material. Reuben Jackson has a review. (4:30) Motor City Moments, by Regina Carter is copyright 2000 on the Verve label, catalog # 314 543 927-2, see http://vervemusicgroup.com.