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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 8:20 (This week's on-air player lives in Iowa ity, Iowa and listens to

When storyteller Carmen Deedee left Cuba as a little girl many years ago, she had a difficult time adjusting to her new life in a small town in Georgia. But her transition was made easier when she discovered that some of the things she treasured in her country she could also find in her new one.

NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS ON A PHP, PHYSICIANS' HEALTH PLAN, SET UP BY 300 PHYSICIANS IN GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO MEET BOTH ECONOMIC AND PATIENTS' DEMANDS.... AND THE NEEDS OF TODAY'S HEALTH CARE.

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was among the people attending Rabin's funeral last Monday. He wrote us his reflections on the event and on the tragedy behind it.

35 years ago - the then 6 year old Ruby Bridges went to her first day of public school - only to be met by a mob of whites who didn't want a little black girl coming to their school. But, despite rigorous protests, Louisiana schools were under court order to integrate and so Ruby Bridges, escorted by federal marshalls, continued first grade at the Frantz School in New Orleans all by herself. The only other person Ruby saw througout most of her first year was her teacher - Barbara Henry. Daniel talks with Ruby Bridges-Hall and Barbara Henry about their recollections of those historic, precedent setting times.

SCOTT'S THOUGHTS ON THE ASSASINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ITZHAK RABIN LAST WEEKEND

Mark O'Brien was stricken by polio as a young boy and is currently one of the few remaining Americans living inside an iron lung. It is from this restricted position that O'Brien has enjoyed the pleasures of baseball by following the games exclusively on radio, not television. "How I Survived Childhood" is one of several poems O'Brien has written about his favorite sport.

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This weekend marks the first annual Patsy Cline Festival in Winchester, Virginia. Jacki talks with biographer Ellis Nassour about the delayed recognition for Patsy--she wasn't always well thought of in Winchester. And we'll hear portions of two Patsy Cline chestnuts.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco talks with a few of the stimated 46-hundred young women under the age of 27 attending the on-governmental Organizations Forum (NGO Forum) in Huairou (why-ROW), China. hese women bring a wide range of concerns to the conference - high rates of HIV nfections, sexual harrassment, unwanted pregnancies, prostitution - and they re helping to draft recommendations to pass on to the United Nations' Women's onference which starts tomorrow.