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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MICHELLE LOVRIC WHO COMPILED A BOOK OF OLD LOVE LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE TITLED "LOVE LETTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PASSION," PUBLISHED BY MARLOWE & CO.

Puzzle master Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 8:13 This week's on-air player lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and listens to

Texans have long enjoyed great political clout in ongress -- in the past, it's been Democrats, but now powerful Republicans from he Lone Star State are strutting their stuff. Wade Goodwyn (GOOD-win) reports rom Austin on how Republican Congressmen from Texas will try to balance the ederal budget while trying to keep their constituents happy.

NPR's Anne Garrels visited several villages in the southern part of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya and reports that residents are divided as to whether to continue fighting Russian troops. The Russians have occupied the capitol Grozny for several weeks.

Daniel talks to Laurie Garrett, author of the book, "The Coming Plague." She says that there are more antibiotic-resistant microbes and diseases that resist conventional medications now than ever before, and that they are spreading rapidly throughout the world because people and goods are travelling more than ever.

Daniel speaks with Silas Cochise, a tribal council member of the Mescalero-Apache Indian tribe in New Mexico. This week the tribe decided not to allow the federal government to bury nuclear wastes on their lands.

Daniel talks to Tom Levenson, author of "Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science" (Simon and Schuster). Levenson says that during the Enlightenment, scientists thought that they could explain and understand everything in the universe, but that really isn't true.

With all the talk of the possible role private orphanages ould play in easing the burden on the American welfare system, NPR's Linda radstein has found a possible alternative overseas -- she sends us this report rom Jerusalem.

B-I - Daniel talks with Diarmuid Jeffreys, author of "The Bureau - Inside the Modern FBI" (Hougton Mifflin). Jeffreys discusses a period during the 1980's when the FBI investigated people belonging to peace and activist groups that were critical of U.S. policies in Latin America. Jeffreys says this period was reminescent of other dark periods in the Bureau when the FBI turned its attention towards investigating people in the U.S. based largely on their political views.

STAMBERG/BICYCLES: SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH TOM O'KEEFE, DIRECTOR OF THE NONPROFIT UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK THAT HAS PUT A HUNDRED DONATED BIKES ON THE STREETS OF PORTLAND, OREGON, FOR THE FREE USE OF ANYONE.