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Host Melissa Block talks to NPR's Andy Bowers in Honolulu on the testimony of the captain of a Japanese fishing boat rammed by a Navy submarine. The captain tells of watching waves sweep young passengers off the boat's deck. A military investigation into the accident is under way in Hawaii.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on rebel groups in Macedonia who are fighting for increased rights for the country's ethnic Albanian population.

NPR's Guy Raz talks with Lisa Simeone from Skopje about this week's fighting on the border near Kosovo.

Commentator Meg Barnhouse remembers saving some flowers that were "in danger." They have reappeared.

NPR's Andy Trudeau and his annual review of the musical nominees for Best Score. In the second of three parts, he and Liane listen to Rachel Portman's music for Chocolat and Ennio Morricone's score for Malena.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the Amtrak passenger train that jumped the tracks early this morning in a remote area of Iowa. Several cars were knocked on their sides, killing one person and injuring 90.

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

Liane talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about President Bush's past week, ranging from the reversal on his position to regulate carbon dioxide to his steady insistence on a tax cut to his edging away from his plan to have faith-based organizations deliver government services and to his desire to no longer have the American Bar Association review judicial appointments.

NPR's Richard Harris reports from Antarctica, where a team of biologists studies the few life forms tenacious enough to exist in such a harsh climate.

We remember singer and songwriter John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. Phillips died this morning in Los Angeles, from apparent heart failure. He was 65 years old.