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NPR's Elaine Korry reports from San Francisco, where the power crisis and rising heating bills have caused record numbers of poor households to apply for financial help to pay their utility bills.

President Bush has suggested dress code for White House staffers. Weekend Edition Commentator Diane Roberts applauds this trend, but thinks the president didn't go far enough.

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

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Sergeant Rob MacLean, Public Information Officer for the United States Park Police on the White House shooting; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle; new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; and Darrell Ames, spokesman for the US Navy Pacific Fleet.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the ways in which genome research has helped scientists and doctors identify genes that cause illnesses.

Five years ago, violinist Robert McDuffie found his true love: a 1735 Guarneri del Gesy violin known as The Ladenburg, whose list of players included 19th-century virtuoso Nicolr Paganini. McDuffie says it was the violin he always longed to play. The only problem - how to pay for it. McDuffie tells Liane how he set up a limited partnership to meet the steep pricetag. (9:00) (NOTE: We hear music from McDuffie's latest recording, the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Miklos Rozsa, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yoel Levi. Telarc CD-80518).

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Tokyo on reaction in Japan to the collision Friday between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of Hawaii. U.S. Coast Guard search efforts continue for the nine Japanese still missing; 26 survivors from the boat have been rescued.

Liane reads from listener letters and e-mails.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris about the latest discoveries in gene research, announced this week by two competing scientific teams. Scientists have discovered that human beings have fewer genes than first thought -- only about twice as many as worms.

Two weeks after a 7-point-7 magnitude earthquake hit India, some villages are just beginning to receive tents to temporarily replace their damaged homes. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Varsamadhi.