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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.)

Liane talks live with NPR's Eric Weiner from Jerusalem following the worst week of violence between Israelis and Palestinians since Ariel Sharon took over as Israeli's prime minister in February.

Liane reads letters from listeners.

Liane talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who is in Belgrade monitoring the latest developments in the arrest today of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic.

Liane talks live with NPR's Beijing Bureau Chief Rob Gifford, about an incident earlier today in which a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft collided with a Chinese fighter plane. The American plane made an emergency landing in Southern China.

On Opening Day of the baseball season, Liane talks with Jim Morris, a Texas high school baseball coach whose kids made a deal with him in the spring of 1999: they'd pursue their dreams, if he did, too. The former minor league pitcher, who'd retired a decade earlier because of injuries, went out for a tryout camp -- and found himself throwing the ball faster than he ever had before. Before the year was out, he was pitching in the big leagues for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, as a 35 year old rookie. Liane talks with Jim Morris, who tells his remarkable story in a new book, The Oldest Rookie: Big League Dreams from a Small Town Guy. (9:50) (NOTE: The Oldest Rookie is published by Little, Brown).

Tourists visiting Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, have been flocking to the Temple of Good Will. Here, sightseers are promised a glimpse at the world's largest crystal and an introduction to one of the world's fastest growing religious sects, The Legion of Good Will. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.

NPR's Jack Speer reports that when Boeing announced its decision to leave Seattle, it unveiled a list of three cities it is considering as a new headquarters. Chicago, Dallas and Denver made the list.

Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick worked together on the series, a coming-of-age portrait of the athlete.

Joel Quenneville has quit as coach of the Florida hockey team following a report about the handling of sexual assault accusations from a player for the Blackhawks during Quenneville's tenure there.