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TIMES SQUARE BALL: When the New Year's Eve ball drops in Times quare tonight, it will burn brighter than ever before. Liane Hansen speaks with ylvania's John di Gesu, who explains how his company is giving the ball a new ook for the first time since 1964.

Liane Hansen speaks with Dan Buettner (BYOOT-ner), long distance icyclist and founder of "Maya Quest" - a bicycling expedition across Mexico and entral America. Throughout the trip, the team was connected to the internet hrough portable computers, and teachers around the country were able to use the rogram in their classrooms.

Reporter Gene-Bryan Johnson reports on Pope John Paul the econd's prayer service yesterday at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. he Pope says Mass in Baltimore today.

Daniel talks with Ted Halstead, executive director of 'Redefining Progress', an economics research group based in San Francisco. Halstead says the Gross Domestic Product gives a misleading picture of the economic well-being in the USA.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's on-air player is Barbara Zimmer rom Norfolk, Virginia. Her public radio station is WHRU out of Norfolk).

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the recent two new movies based on the Shakespeare classic, "Othello" and "Richard The Third."

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH U-N PROTECTION FORCE SPOKESMAN CHRIS VERNON ABOUT THE LATEST NEWS ON BOSNIA AND THE FATE OF THE MISSING AMERICAN JOURNALIST.