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Daniel talks to Lee Grensci of Pennsylvania State University about lightning facts and fallacies. You really can be killed by lightning jumping through the telephone, he says, but the odds against it are high. If you are outside during a thunderstorm, the best thing to do is to go into a ravine or a valley or to get in a car.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a wo-week challenge for everyone at home. 8:01 his week's on-air player lives in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and listens to MEA, Portland, Maine.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with writer Carolyn See about her ittersweet memoir, DREAMING: HARD LUCK AND GOOD TIME IN AMERICA (Random House ooks). The book takes a personal look at how drinking and other addictions ffected multiple generations of her family and their "American Dream."

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT DISTRESSING NEWS THAT YANKEE GREAT MICKEY MANTLE NEEDED A LIVER TRANSPLANT.

CHINA IS EXPERIENCING A SURNAME SHORTAGE.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH ANDY ROONEY, CBS TELEVISION COMMENTATOR, ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "MY WAR," PUBLISHED BY TIMES BOOK, IN WHICH HE RECALLS HIS YEARS AS A CORRESPONDENT DURING WORLD WAR II FOR THE STARS AND STRIPES.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL GOLDBERGER, CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, WHO RECENTLY VISITED BERLIN AND FOUND THAT 50 YEARS AFTER THAT CITY SURRENDERED TO THE ALLIES AND 5 YEARS AFTER THE BERLIN WALL CAME DOWN, THERE STILL IS A HOLE IN THE ARCHITECTURAL HEART OF BERLIN.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with singer/songwriter Paula Cole about er latest CD, HARBINGER. (The Imago Recording Company #72787-21018-2)

The PUZZLE Internet address is puzzle@npr.org.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MICHAEL HARRISON, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF TALKERS MAGAZINE AND CO-CHAIRMAN OF TALK RADIO '95 ABOUT THE SELECTION, BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS (NARTSH), OF J. GORDON LIDDY AS THE RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH AWARD.