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Scott speaks with Weekend Edition gardening consultant Ketzel Levine about roses and this weekend's rose festival in her new hometown, Portland, Oregon.

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville, California is making available for the first time the only known recording of O'Neill as he reads from his play 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. Susan talks with park ranger Jean Houts, who conducts daily tours of Tao House - where O'Neill wrote four of his most important plays.

Reporter Amy Bernstein visits the headquarters of a magazine for pre-teen girls called "Girls' Life." The relatively new magazine is the first full-fledged glossy of its kind and has become something of a phenomenon in the publishing world. With over one hundred thousand current subscribers and two to three thousand more pouring in every month, the magazine seems to have found a niche...although advertisers still need to be convinced of its appeal and the buying power of its primary demographic group.

today. He is the first North Korean defector to fly a military plane to the South since February 1983.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu worries about a new study that says writers are especially prone to mental illness. Manic depression, mood swings, alcoholism, and sexual promiscuity are all apparently pitfalls of the profession. Codrescu wonders which of these vices and failings he might have.

JOG-A-THON: Essayist Susan Arnout (ARE-noh) Smith describes the atest fundraising technique at her daughter's school: the "jog-a-thon".

Liane speaks with Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times and arl Cannon of the Baltimore Sun about some of the vents in this week's news, ncluding Washington's reaction to the Israeli election of Benjamin Netanyahu, he guilty verdicts in the Whitewater trial, and California's gasoline urcharge.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the future for Israel's next prime minister - Benjamin Netanyahu.

NPR's Adam Hochberg joins Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina senator who's going for an unprecedented eighth term. A Republican challenger to the 93 year old says Senator Thurmond is too old to serve.

NPR's Sunni Khalid takes a look at the situation in the West Bank own of Hebron. According the the peace agreement, Israel is supposed to remove ts military from Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu made an election promise to leave he Israeli military in Hebron. Resolving that situation will be the first ndicator fo the future path of the peace process.