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Simon/Ketzel: Scott talks to our gardening guru, Ketzel Levine, who's attending Seattle's annual Northwest Flower and Garden Show. The show, which is bursting with the latest in floral design, is a reminder to frustrated gardeners that spring is just around the corner.

Scott talks to Coach Russ Gray of Georgia's Glascock County High School Panthers basketball team about what it took to break a 62-game losing streak.

Kate Seelye reports 10 years after the fighting ended, Beruit appears to be thriving, although things are far from perfect.

It does not include progressive priorities like paid family leave or measures to lower the costs of prescription drugs. Still, President Biden thinks it would pass both chambers.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the NBA All-Star game, which marks the halfway point of the basketball season.

Russell Lewis of member station KPBS reports from San Diego on how the new administration and its promises of more pay are being received by the troops.

Nine people are still missing since Friday's collision between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing trawler off the Hawaiian Islands. President Bush today asked for prayers for the families of the nine -- all lost from the ship. (The Navy has begun a probe of the incident, with questions focusing on the surfacing procedures followed by the U-S-S Greenville before it struck the trawler.) NPR's Tom Gjelten talks with Linda Wertheimer about the investigation.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on Attorney General John Ashcroft's first news conference since taking office. Ashcroft, whose treatment of a black judge was an issue in his confirmation, highlighted his plans for civil rights. Ashcroft said enforcing laws against discrimination is one of his three priorities. He did not confirm or deny news reports that Atlanta lawyer Larry Thompson and Washington attorney Theodore Olson are in line for top jobs at the Justice Department.

President Bush is focusing on national security this week in a series of visits to military bases. Today he inspected troops at an Army base in Georgia. (The president told soldiers at Fort Stewart that he would raise their pay and improve their housing as a way of raising morale and encouraging recruitment in the armed forces.) NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea was there.

Of the two versions of the genome map, one is by for-profit Celera Genomics, the other by a publicly funded group led by the National Institutes of Health. They've chosen the world's two foremost science journals to publish their work, and therein lies controversy. Science magazine gets Celera's map. The journal normally allows unfettered access by researchers to the data behind its articles. But not this time. And that has some researchers worried that business is usurping openness in science. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports