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Commentator Shelley Mickle says a routine trip to the grocery store jogged memories she didn't know she had.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Brasilia, Brazil, where there is growing resistance to Non-Government Organizations or NGOs. Politicians there are concerned that the groups wield too much power, and fear some NGOs are just money-making schemes that rely on official corruption to operate. But supporters worry that in their efforts to reign in the few bad examples, the politicians will harm those that are making a positive impact in Brazil.

Host Melissa Block talks to Sen. Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who wrote the Senate bankruptcy bill, and to bankruptcy lawyer Mark Zuckerberg, who opposes the measure.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Portland, Oregon native Erika Lee, who now lives in New Castle West in County Limerick, Ireland. Two years ago, Erika became the proprietor of "J. O'Sullivans," after winning the "win your own pub contest" sponsored by Guinness. She's enjoying her new life.

Mark Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, finds a donor to help the Smithsonian Insitution purchase Gilbert Stuart's 1796 portrait of George Washington. His ability to raise more than $20 million for the effort is a tribute to the lasting appeal of an iconic image.

Liane reads from listener letters and e-mails.

Across the country, as the days gradually grow longer, gardeners are turning to pulling up weeds, putting in pansies and considering the world around them. Weekend Edition essayist Diane Roberts contemplates the view from her mother's garden in Tallahassee.

Liane Hansen speaks with guitarist/composer Ralph Towner, from the jazz/classical/world music group Oregon. After playing together for 30 years, the quartet has had collaborations with orchestras in the past, but only now has put their orchestral repertoire on disc:Oregon in Moscow (Intuition Records #3303) features the group performing with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. We'll also hear from producer Steve Rodby, who organized the Moscow project.

Liane talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about President Bush's past week, ranging from the reversal on his position to regulate carbon dioxide to his steady insistence on a tax cut to his edging away from his plan to have faith-based organizations deliver government services and to his desire to no longer have the American Bar Association review judicial appointments.

An ancient infectious disease has returned to El Salvador. For NPR and American Radioworks, correspondent Daniel Zwerdling reports on the outbreak of Dengue Fever in the Central American nation.