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Reporter Gene-Bryan Johnson reports on Pope John Paul the econd's prayer service yesterday at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. he Pope says Mass in Baltimore today.

Daniel talks with Ted Halstead, executive director of 'Redefining Progress', an economics research group based in San Francisco. Halstead says the Gross Domestic Product gives a misleading picture of the economic well-being in the USA.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's on-air player is Barbara Zimmer rom Norfolk, Virginia. Her public radio station is WHRU out of Norfolk).

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the recent two new movies based on the Shakespeare classic, "Othello" and "Richard The Third."

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH U-N PROTECTION FORCE SPOKESMAN CHRIS VERNON ABOUT THE LATEST NEWS ON BOSNIA AND THE FATE OF THE MISSING AMERICAN JOURNALIST.

NPR SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT JOE PALCA REPORTS ON HOW THE DISCOVERY OF THE X-RAY, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, HAS CHANGED THE WORLD.

NPR'S MARA LIASSON REPORTS ON HOW PRESIDENT CLINTON IS TRYING TO BUILD PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HIS PROPOSAL TO SEND 25-THOUSAND U.S. GROUND TROOPS TO BOSNIA ONCE A PEACE AGREEMENT IS SIGNED.

WE ARE RE-AIRING A SEGMENT THAT RAN ON WEEKEND EDITION EIGHT YEARS AGO, WHICH PROFILED THE NEWARK ABBEY, A ROMAN CATHOLIC BENEDICTINE MONASTERY IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. THE POPE'S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES BEGAN IN NEWARK AND WE WANTED TO CONSIDER, AGAIN, THE MONASTERY'S WAY OF LIFE THIS WEEK.