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NPR's Alex Chadwick gives a year-end update on the NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions stories of 2001.

In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Weekend Edition Saturday senior producer Sean Collins reflects on the death of a friend.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg has solace for the stumped gift giver: the best titles from independent booksellers around the country.

On the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, commentator Walter Cronkite reflects on the lone dissenter in the Congressional vote to declare war -- political pioneer Jeanette Rankin -- and how another lone dissenting vote granting President Bush added powers to hunt Osama bin Laden echoes Rankin's own vote.

Sandy Tolan of American Radio Works continues his report on Middle Eastern attitudes toward America.

Neal Pollack's book The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is out in paperback. The author calls it "a heady mix of aesthetic loathing and professional jealousy." It's also a wickedly funny satire of the outsized egos of American journalism. He talks with Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

By some estimates, more than half the languages spoken in the world today will be gone by the end of the century. For Morning Edition, NPR's Joe Palca reports on one attempt in Alaska to slow the extinction process.

Documentarian Julian Crandall-Hollick opens his series on the pavement dwellers of Mumbai with Ragpicking on Malabar Hill. He tags along with a group of young boys who spend their days prowling streets and alleys looking for castoffs they can sell. The four-part series continues through June on Weekend Edition Sunday.

A lot of people are talking these days about how religiously diverse the United States is becoming. Commentator Gustav Niebhur says the U.S. has always been religiously diverse.

At the height of the Great Depression, a government economist named Roy Stryker sent some of America's best photographers to document farm life. The result is one of the greatest collections of photographs ever -- and the book Children of the Depression highlights the most memorable images.