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Host Jacki Lyden talks with limosine driver George Barlow who will be working tonight's Oscar Awards in Los Angeles.

In the second of a three-part series on the Islam and the Internet, Weekend All Things Considered reporter/producer Davar Ardalan looks at how the Web provides new avenues for education and business to women often confined to traditional religious roles. (9:32)

With the Oscars just a week away, studios are marketing their nominated films to a very exclusive audience: Academy voters. Get the full list of nominees for each category, scan NPR movie critic Bob Mondello's favorite movies of 2001 and join the NPR online community to share your own favorites.

Host Lynn Neary speaks with Weekend Edition Commentator Ellis Cose about his special report on black men in America.

In a gravity-defying move, rapidly revolving hard-boiled eggs will push themselves upright and spin like a top. NPR's Joe Palca explains the science for All Things Considered.

When Gumby creator Art Clokey was going to film school in the 1950s, he thought he'd work with live actors — not clay ones

In an interview for All Things Considered, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor talks about Lazy B, the new book she wrote with her brother, and how the straightforward values she learned on the family ranch helped shape her destiny. (7:30) The book is published by Random House. ISBN # 03755

After Sept. 11, many turned to the Internet to learn more about Islam. What they found was an online Muslim community of surprising diversity. In the first of a three-part series, NPR's Davar Ardalan reports on the wide range of voices online celebrating the religion and culture of Islam. (9:48)

The latest Radio Expedition treks into the Louisiana swamps in pursuit of one of the most charismatic American birds: the ivory-billed woodpecker. The fabled wild-eyed woodpecker was thought to be extinct, but recent reports have electrified birders around the country. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for Morning Edition.

We take a moment to recall the first ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1929.