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Tomorrow, Pope John Paul the Second will perform a beatification ceremony that will put two former popes one step away from sainthood. The are John the 23rd and Pius the 9th. Scott speaks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli.

Hendrick Hertzberg of the New Yorker magazine reviews the week's news.

The U.S. government's spy satellites are not so secret, thanks to one satellite hobbyst. Scott speaks with Ted Moltzan, who predicted the exact angle of the latest spy satellite crossing the equator at 68 degrees inclination.

Actor and comedian David Alan Grier. Grier got his start on the TV sketch comedy show In Living Color. He's films include Boomerang, Blankman, and Return to Me(REBROADCAST from 4/01/91).

Dick and Tom Smothers of the comedy duo The Smothers Brothers. In 1967, their show The Smothers Brothers Comedy hour first went on the air. The show has been credited with helping pave the way for a new generation of TV comedy shows including Saturday Night Live. (REBROADCAST from a 1985 inter

Mary Sojourner shares her comments on her own unsettling experiences playing a video game for the first time.

Linda talks to Ehren Fried Libach, President of The Quantum Group in Tustin, California about the uses for recycled tires. Of the 270 million tires scrapped each year in the United States, about 114 million are mixed with coal and used as fuel. Rubber playground mats are also made from recycled tires.

The government of Tartarstan -- part of the Russian Federation -- has decided to switch from using the Cyrillic alphabet to the Roman alphabet. The switch is timed to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of self-rule in Tartarstan. Robert talks with Martha Brill Olcott, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Brill co-authored Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation in the Commonwealth of the Independent States. (4:30) Brill's book is published by Carnegie Press, 0ctober 1999.

Linda and Robert read letters from All Things Considered listeners. (3:15) To contact All Things Considered, write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.

The FBI today arrested a man suspected of putting out a phony press release that sent a high-tech company's stock plummeting last week. As Jim Zarroli reports, authorities said the man made nearly $250,000 on the scheme.