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NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a dispute brewing on how the 2002 Winter Olympics will be characterized. Already, some are nicknaming the games the "Mormon Olympics" because of their location in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints not only takes offense at this use of the term "Mormon", but denies that it has any improper influence with Olympic officials.

Writer John McIlwraith has been told he has stomach cancer, he will have surgery tomorrow. To prepare for the surgery he decided to celebrate his digestive organ in a unique way.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks back on the American obsession with Fidel Castro, from the Kennedy administration's assassination plots to the Cuban missile crisis.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports many parents of autistic children are experimenting with treatments for autism and working to speed up research on the disorder.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Skopje that the recent fighting in northwest Macedonia has highlighted the country's deep ethnic divisions. His report gives a sampling of opinion from both communities.

NPR's Joanne Silberner will have the latest on a new Surgeon General's report on smoking. The focus this year is on women who smoke. Lung cancer and death rates are up, and more teenage girls are smoking. The surgeon general is recommending new anti-smoking campaigns aimed at women and girls.

You've heard of walking billboards, but how about dribbling billboards? Noah Adams talks with Dakkan Abbe, president of Fifty Rubies Marketing in New York. Abbe has come up with an idea to use basketball players as human billboards -- by placing temporary tattoos on their arms.

Sarah Chayes reports from Paris on how restaurants there are adjusting their menus in the wake of foot and mouth and Mad Cow disease outbreaks.

Asians have become more visible in the mainstream American culture. Commentator and journalist William Wong shares his perspective on the "Asianization" of America.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is David Shevin from Tiffin, Ohio. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WGTE in Toledo, Ohio.)