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NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports from California's Central Valley, where farmers are bracing for power shortages that could have an impact well beyond the state.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Harriet Solomon from Springfield, Virginia. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WETA in Washington, DC.)

Five years ago, violinist Robert McDuffie found his true love: a 1735 Guarneri del Gesy violin known as The Ladenburg, whose list of players included 19th-century virtuoso Nicolr Paganini. McDuffie says it was the violin he always longed to play. The only problem - how to pay for it. McDuffie tells Liane how he set up a limited partnership to meet the steep pricetag. (9:00) (NOTE: We hear music from McDuffie's latest recording, the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Miklos Rozsa, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yoel Levi. Telarc CD-80518).

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the potential ramifications of a national missile defense system.

Liane reads from listener letters and e-mails.

Just in time for Valentine's Day: Liane talks to Barrie Dolnick, co-author with Donald Baack, of the book, How to Write a Love Letter: Putting What's in Your Heart on Paper. Dolnick offers tips on how to woo your loved one through the written word. (How to Write a Love Letter is published by Harmony Books.)

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Sergeant Rob MacLean, Public Information Officer for the United States Park Police on the White House shooting; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle; new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; and Darrell Ames, spokesman for the US Navy Pacific Fleet.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where this past week there was concern that the deadly ebola virus may have entered the country. An African woman who arrived there developed symptoms that could have been caused by the virus. Tests ruled out ebola, but the woman remains very ill.

President Bush has suggested dress code for White House staffers. Weekend Edition Commentator Diane Roberts applauds this trend, but thinks the president didn't go far enough.

Lisa talks with Jeanne Thaggard of Austin, Texas. In the 1920s, Thaggard's parents met through the exchange of a message in a shirt pocket, sent from the Montgomery Ward shipping center.