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

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled that a man facing capital murder charges was not deprived of a fair trial even though his lawyer slept through the trial. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

NPR's Anne Garrels previews today's parliamentary elections in Kosovo.

Scott speaks with Gene Wilkes, the owner of the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring, Maryland. His diner was featured last Sunday in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip--a strip which touted the virtues and endurance of diners.

Scott talks with Jim Metzner, the host and producer of the feature radio show, Pulse of the Planet, about some dirt eating parrots in Peru.

Vice President Al Gore took some time off the campaign trail today to watch his son play a school football game, but not before he spoke to voters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where health care is a big issue. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the Jackie Chan film "Legend of Drunken Master."

NPR's Peter Overby reports President elect George W. Bush chose Don Evans as commerce secretary yesterday. Evans, an oilman from Texas, Evans was also chairman of Bush's campaign fundraising. The Bush campaign broke records with the amounts of money it raised and Bush has high hopes that Evans sill continue that trend in his new position.

Jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton died Tuesday in New York at the age of 90. His musical career spanned 70 years, and he played bass with almost every great 20th century jazz musician from Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway to John Coltrane.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the long-awaited new rules from Environmental Protection Agency that will significantly reduce pollutants from diesel fuel. The EPA says the limits will save lives and millions of cases of respiratory disease. Oil refiners will have to modify the way they make diesel, and engine manufacturers will have to add pollution control devices--changes they say will cost the consumer.