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A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Sergeant Rob MacLean, Public Information Officer for the United States Park Police on the White House shooting; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle; new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; and Darrell Ames, spokesman for the US Navy Pacific Fleet.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where this past week there was concern that the deadly ebola virus may have entered the country. An African woman who arrived there developed symptoms that could have been caused by the virus. Tests ruled out ebola, but the woman remains very ill.

President Bush has suggested dress code for White House staffers. Weekend Edition Commentator Diane Roberts applauds this trend, but thinks the president didn't go far enough.

Lisa talks with Jeanne Thaggard of Austin, Texas. In the 1920s, Thaggard's parents met through the exchange of a message in a shirt pocket, sent from the Montgomery Ward shipping center.

The 50th annual National Basketball Association All Star Game will be played today in Washington. Pro basketball boomed during the 1980s and '90s, thanks to Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and other charismatic, and highly-marketable, players. But how is the league doing today, with a new wave of younger, more controversial stars? Liane talks with New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte.

From Los Angeles, Johanna Cooper reports on the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The group has long invited community members to join them on stage. For her latest project, Hallelujah, Lerman brought in people from churches, synagogues and Buddhist temples to give praise and celebrate as part of the dance.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris about the latest discoveries in gene research, announced this week by two competing scientific teams. Scientists have discovered that human beings have fewer genes than first thought -- only about twice as many as worms.

Linda Wertheimer interviews the authors of two new thrillers: Michael Connelly, about A Darkness More Than Night, and Evan Hunter, about his collaboration with Ed McBain to write Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts. Connelly's book takes main characters from other novels -- an LAPD detective and a retired FBI investigator -- and pits them against one another. Hunter, an acclaimed author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, wrote the first half of Candyland, then looked to his alter-ego for the second half, when it becomes more of a murder mystery. (7:45) A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly, is published by Little, Brown, ISBN # 0-316-15407-5. Candyland, by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain is published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN # 0-7432-1316-5.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon on the US and British attacks on five Iraqi targets.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the staffing crisis looming over the federal bureaucracy because of the push in recent years to downsize.