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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Roger Barkan from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBUR in Boston.)

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from South Africa on the new challenges facing AIDS activists there, now that pharmaceutical companies have agreed to allow the sale of cheaper AIDS medications.

Scott speaks with Phil Jackson, coach of the LA Lakers and former coach of the Chicago Bulls, about Michael Jordon, basketball, philosophy AND his new book, "More than a Game." (Seven Stories Press).

The trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton, Jr., continues in Birmingham, Alabama today. He's accused of participating in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in 1963 which killed four black girls. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Debbie Elliott who is covering the trial, where the prosecution has wrapped up.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez tells the story of three African-American women who graduated last year with PhD's in mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park. White males make up the bulk of mathematicians in the country, and these women are working to break the mold.

In the first piece of a two-part series, NPR's Robert Smith reports on a new survey conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The poll examines the sector of Americans who earn enough to put them above the federal poverty line, but still struggle to make ends meet. (7:23) Check out the NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Poll .

Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer read from some of this week's listener letters. (3:45) Send letters to Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20001. Or send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

From member station WNYC in New York, Annie Cheney has the story of the Hudson Hotel. Once a haven for low income New Yorkers, the Hudson has gone way upscale. The long term tenants are staying on too, but the hotel is taking pains to make sure the two classes of tenants never meet.

Japanese authorities are trying to determine the identity of a man who tried to sneak into the country on a fake passport. It is thought that he might be Kim Jong Nam, the 29- year-old son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Linda Wertheimer speaks with Mark Magnier, Tokyo bureau chief of the L.A. Times.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the future of a Clinton administration regulation that limits road-building and subsequent logging in 58 million acres of National Forest land. Today, the Bush administration is expected to announce that it intends to modify the so-called "roadless rule" to allow state and local officials to challenge the restrictions on a case-by-case basis.