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Scott reviews the news of the week with Hendrick Hertzberg, political columnist and senior editor of The New Yorker magazine.

Scott with some thoughts a parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.

Lisa talks with Huang Yasheng of Harvard University about the reaction of young people in China to the spy plane incident.

NPR's Joe Palca traveled in Cambodia recently, and found a variety of ethnic food available in restaurants.

Lisa talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about today's funeral in Cincinnati for Timothy Thomas, the 19-year-old black man who was shot by police a week ago. The city will be under a curfew for the third night in a row, as officials try to come to grips with recent rioting.

Lisa talks with NPR's Ivan Watson, who's in the West African country of Benin, about the anticipated arrival of a ship that's carrying around 200 children who've been taken as indentured servants.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with J.D. McClatchy, the editor of a series of Random House audio books called The Voice of the Poet. The series includes never before released recordings of eminent poets. We'll hear Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Randall Jarrell read their own works.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Charlie Wilburn, a former member of the Cincinnati City Council and Jenny Laster, the spokesperson for a group of black political and religious leaders in Cincinnati; Richard Anderson, CEO, Northwest Airlines, and O.V. Delle-Femine, National Director, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association; Attorney General John Ashcroft on the decision to allow a closed-circuit feed of the Timothy McVeigh execution to Oklahoma City; an announcement inside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, where 43 people died in a stampede last Wednesday; one of the fans who escaped the stampede; President George W. Bush; Lieutenant Shane Osborn, commander of the damaged US Navy spy plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island two weeks ago; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi; and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Lisa talks with young fans at RFK Stadium, who are there today for the first game of the WUSA, the professional American women's soccer league.

Scott talks with the Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine, about noxious weeds. Ketzel says that one region's common garden plant can be another regions invasive pest. (6:00) NOTE: There is plenty more dirt to be found in our Talking Plants section.