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Frank talks with NPR's Congressional Correspondent Steve Inskeep about action on the federal budget. This past week, the Senate agreed on a version of a budget plan which scales back the scope of President Bush's 1.6 trillion dollar tax cut.

Commentator Christopher Wynn received a pink slip from his high tech firm...and lived to tell the tale.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Charles Zafonte from Easton, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WHYY in Philadelphia.)

The Hopi and other Native American tribes would like to use objects recently repatriated under a new federal law, but Daniel Kraker reports that many artifacts are contaminated with dangerous chemicals museums used to preserve them.

NPR's White House Correspondent Don Gonyea reports on a busy week for President Bush, who was dealing with the fight over his budget and tax cut plans in the Senate and the continuing standoff in China over the crew of a downed Naval aircraft.

Frank talks with writer Thomas Glave about Whose Song? And Other Stories, his new collection of works about life in the New York and the Caribbean. Glave's work focuses on issues involving race, sexuality and the interaction of people from different cultures. (9:25) (NOTE: Whose Song is published by City Lights Books).

Frank talks with NPR's Rob Gifford from Beijing for the latest on the standoff between China and the U.S. over the detention of 24 U.S. servicemen and women, whose plane made an emergency landing in China a week ago.

Commentator Reynolds Price thinks back to the phrase "this week's play in front of last weeks sets." It's a phrase he remembers from reading Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Commentator Daniel Ferri, who teaches sixth grade in Chicago, brings us a vignette from some of the first steps out from behind the curtain of childhood onto life's grand stage.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Maidstone, England, that a jury found Dutch truck driver Perry Wacker guilty of manslaughter today in the deaths of 58 illegal Chinese migrants. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Wacker transported the Chinese migrants in his truck on a ferry from Belgium to Dover last year.