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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's on-air player is Linda Lashbrook rom West Long Branch, New Jersey. Her public radio station is WNYC out of New ork City).

SCOTT TELLS ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL WHO IS RECUPERATING THIS WEEK FROM SURGERY THAT MAY ENABLE HER TO "LITERALLY" SMILE.

Susan speaks with Father Fred Kamer, president of Catholic Relief Services about a decrease in contributions to charity by Americans. He says that this decline in giving comes at a time when more people are requesting assistance from churches and other charitable organizations.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH EDWARD ROBB ELLIS, WHO HAS KEPT A DIARY FOR 68 YEARS. PARTS OF HIS DIARY HAS BEEN PUBLISHED, TITLED 'A DIARY OF THE CENTURY.'

SCOTT SIMON REFLECTS ON THE BEGINNING OF AUTUMN.

Jacki talks with Professor Peter Pellet, head of the Nutrition Department at the University of Massachusetts, about a report he helped write on malnutrition in Iraq. He recently returned from a Iraq with a group that was given free reign to travel throughout the country. He says they discovered that millions of people are malnourished in Iraq and he blames the UN sanctions for the worsening situation. He says because Iraq cannot sell its oil, it cannot buy the food its people need.

Sandy Tolan reports on Israel and Jordan and their joint efforts to harness the sun for energy purposes. The two countries signed a peace treaty one year ago.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the level of trash piling up n the beaches of Texas, and its effect on the marine life just off the coast. his piece is excerpted from NPR/National Geographic's "Radio Expeditions: ceans of Life", a radio documentary special which will air on many NPR stations n the coming week.

THE STORY OF HOW A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR FOUND HIS FAMILY BIBLE FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from Tuzla about the continuing American ilitary deployment in Bosnia. The deployment has been somewhat delayed because t's been difficult to get heavy military equipment across some of Bosnia's ivers.