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Last night NPR's Jackie Northam attended funeral services for Veronica Bowers, the young missionary woman who was killed when the Peruvian air force mistook Bowers's small plane for that of a drug runner's.

Lisa talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein about the latest efforts by Egyptians and Jordanians to forge a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.

Lisa talks with three foreign journalists about their perceptions of President Bush's first hundred days in office. Yoshi Komori is from the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun; Jose Carreno is from Mexico's El Universal; and Siegfried Buschschluter is from Deutschland Radio in Germany.

A report from Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race, in which Lisa helped pedal a 14-and-a-half-foot pink poodle around the Inner Harbor. All vehicles in the race have to be human-powered, and they have to go on land and in water. The race provides hundreds of contestants and spectators an opportunity for ingenuity and zaniness.

1.2 billion of the world's six billion people live on less than a dollar a day, according to the World Bank's annual report on global development, released today. Sub-Saharan Africa is suffering the world's most dire poverty, while conditions in East Asian and Pacific nations are improving. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new revelations about earth's beginnings, by scientists in Antarctica.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Roger Barkan from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBUR in Boston.)

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from South Africa on the new challenges facing AIDS activists there, now that pharmaceutical companies have agreed to allow the sale of cheaper AIDS medications.

Scott speaks with Phil Jackson, coach of the LA Lakers and former coach of the Chicago Bulls, about Michael Jordon, basketball, philosophy AND his new book, "More than a Game." (Seven Stories Press).

The trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton, Jr., continues in Birmingham, Alabama today. He's accused of participating in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in 1963 which killed four black girls. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Debbie Elliott who is covering the trial, where the prosecution has wrapped up.