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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 8:15 This week's on-air player lives in Dover, Ohio and listens to W-K-S-U and -O-U-C).

For years, squatters have been living in abandoned buildings in New York's East Village and Lower East Side. In spite of the risk that one day they could be forced out, squatters have often improved the buildings dramatically, investing time and money in an effort to create a home. Recently however, the New York City police department launched a large raid on several squats, forcing the residents out. While the city argues these buildings had been illegally co-opted, the squatters argue the law protects their rights as homesteaders. Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that now the matter has gone to court.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports on block 37 in Chicago... an empty lot in the middle of the downtown area. The lot waws bulldozed in the 1980s real estate boom, but a planned development was never built. On Friday it was announced that Sears Roebuck is considering building on the site.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH BBC REPORTER CHARLES SCANLON IN SEOUL, KOREA, WHERE THE SAMPOONG DEPARTMENT STORE COLLAPSED LAST THURSDAY AND PEOPLE ARE STILL TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and repeats he two-week challenge. 7:18 This week's on-air player lives in Portland, Oregon and listens to KOPB).

SIMON/ANCHOVIES: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH DAVID GARRISON, A BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ, ABOUT HIS THEORY ABOUT A STRANGE BIRD ATTACK THAT OCCURRED IN TOWNS AROUND THE MONTEREY BAY IN 1961 AND INSPIRED ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'THE BIRDS'.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the debate over the ecision to use two atom bombs to end the second world world.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has unexpectedly freed two Americans who had been jailed in Iraq. The men, William Barloon and David Daliberti, were arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison after they entered Iraq from Kuwait by mistake last March. The Americans were freed after US Congressman Bill Richardson (of New Mexico) met with Saddam.

Daniel talks with Gary Millhollin (mil-HAHL-in) director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Today is the 50th anniversary of first atomic test. Millhollin says there is a greater chance that nuclear weapons would be used today than at any time during the Cold War.

Critic Bob Mondello chronicles the influence that the atomic bomb has had on Hollywood movies. Some movies plots have shown the drama of narrowly-averting nuclear war, others have depicted the aftereffects of a bomb, and yet others have poked fun at the cold war.