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Alex talks about next weekend's hula dance at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The Pit is the hole left after an incredible amount of copper ore had been extracted by the Anaconda Company and ARCO.

Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "Southern country clubs circa 1950," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented.

Chadwick/Rovner: Host Alex Chadwick speaks with NPR's Julie Rovner about health care happenings on Capitol Hill this week.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Vermont Public Radio's Steve Young reports on Vermont's new groundbreaking state law which gives gay and lesbian couples almost all the rights and benefits of marriage. This morning, Young attended the civil union of two lesbians in Bennington, Vermont who were the first couple to take advantage of the law.

Who's going to get kicked off the island next? That's the question being asked at watercoolers across the country. Alex talks with Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the media phemonenon that is CBS's Survivor.

Alex speaks with Jim Metzner, host of Pulse of the Planet, about the sounds made by the dogbane tiger moth.

There's a new target for protests in Cuba: a 34 year old US immigration law. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

Jacki Lyden talks with Elizabeth Abbott, author of A History of Celibacy: From Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, and Cher. Abbott reveals what caused and still causes people to give up sex . Although required by some religions, celibacy was undertaken as a choice primarily throughout history for social and economic reasons. (Scribner ISBN 0-684-84943-7)

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines US - Cuba relations in the wake of Elian Gonzales' return this past week to Cuba.