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Scott talks with William 'Woody' Woodworth about the death of his friend, 'Fast Eddie' Parker, who claimed to be the inspiration for The Hustler's Fast Eddie.

Scott Simon talks with Georgia Tech Transportation Professor Lawrence Frank. Frank is the author of two studies linking suburban sprawl to obesity.

Kate Seelye reports 10 years after the fighting ended, Beruit appears to be thriving, although things are far from perfect.

Scott talks to Coach Russ Gray of Georgia's Glascock County High School Panthers basketball team about what it took to break a 62-game losing streak.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the NBA All-Star game, which marks the halfway point of the basketball season.

Robert Costa's book Peril, which he co-wrote with Bob Woodward, goes inside Trump's war room on the eve of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Costa says the 2024 election could trigger a constitutional crisis.

Simon/Ketzel: Scott talks to our gardening guru, Ketzel Levine, who's attending Seattle's annual Northwest Flower and Garden Show. The show, which is bursting with the latest in floral design, is a reminder to frustrated gardeners that spring is just around the corner.

President Bush got his full Cabinet faster confirmed than most presidents do. But like his predecessors, he is finding the filling of other high appointive offices is far more troublesome and time consuming. NPR's Pam Fessler reports that the people who do most of the heavy-lifting in policy-making have yet to be named.

NPR's Rick Karr reports a federal court in San Francisco has ruled against Napster and ordered the online music service to stop trading in copyrighted material. The ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an earlier lower court ruling indicating that Napster violated copyright laws.

Noah talks with American University Law Professor Peter Jaszi, who specializes in copyright, contract, and intellectual property law as it pertains to the Internet, about the Napster ruling.