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It is Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday. Scott commemorates the abolitionist and novelist with a reading from her classic work "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

- NPR's Phillip Davis reports from London that a bomb has exploded in Manchester, England today (Saturday) injuring about 200 people. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but British Prime Minister John Major blames the Irish Repubican Army.

- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu retired today as Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa. For the record, we play an excerpt from a sermon Tutu gave at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in December, 1984.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the latest discussions among America's major trading partners about their possible retaliation for the Helms-Burton law. Helms-Burton punishes certain foreign companies that do business in Cuba; it's the most drastic law of its kind ever enacted in the United States. Mexico, Canada, and the European Union have not yet announced specific counter-measures, but recent history with similar laws shows that foreign governments can make it illegal for their companies to follow U-S orders.

A government study released today says that driving a cab is the most dangerous job in America. The second most dangerous job is being a sheriff. NPR's Melissa Block reports on how people who hold these jobs are reacting to this news. She talks with one New York cab driver who was held up at gunpoint several years ago says for three months after the attack he was too scared to drive his cab; now he never drives it at night. And a sheriff in Washington State says he's not surprised sheriffs have the second highest on-job homicide rate; he says there's a continual struggle to make the job safer, and more funding is the answer.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that yesterday's bombing reveals undercurrents of anti-Americanism in Saudi Arabia and resentment toward the government there. Though the opposition is fuelled by militant Islam to some degree, analysts say that Saudi Arabia remains stable, though the opposition will have to be managed carefully if the country is to remain stable.

Linda talks with U-S Capt. Hector Jamili (HA-mee-lee), a civil engineer stationed at the military complex outside Dhahran (DAH

Commentator Leslie Lang describes the charming tradition in Hawaii of draping graduating seniors in stacks of colorful leis, one on top of another, and how she had three near misses in terms experiencing this tradition at her graduations... until finally getting it right, this year, at the University of Hawaii.

Edmund Roy reports that the largest party in the Indian parliament has resigned, unable to form a coalition. The United Front -- a coalition of lower caste and left-leaning parties -- is now trying to form a government to run the world's largest democracy.

NPR'S Eric Weiner profiles the new Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu (n'tahn-YAH-hoo). Though most Israelis call him by his nickname, Bibi (BEE-bee), few Israelis know much about the man who will lead them.