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NPR's Gerry Hadden reports a significant decline in the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, the number of arrests at the busiest illegal border crossing, at Douglas, Ariz., is down 40-percent in the first six weeks of this year, compared to the same period last year.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Oscar nominated art film Pollock, directed and produced by — and starring — Ed Harris. It took him a decade to finish the movie. Mondello says it was worth it.

Designing a mission that could last longer than 50 years presents unusual challenges that have nothing to do with technology.

While US and British planes were bombing targets in Iraq, President Bush was in Mexico for his first foreign visit. Melinda speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is with the President.

Melinda talks with Krister Fardig, a sophomore at Brown University. Mr. Fardig is one of a group of players of a game, Sanctum, who bought it after the company went out of business.

Melinda speaks with the curator the the Museum of Western Colorado about new forsensic studies being undertaken to try to determine if the 19th century notorious "cannibal" Alfred Packer killed the rest of his group in order to eat them...or simply ate them after killing the last one in self-defense.

The Supreme Court in Israel decided there should be no ban on the playing in that country of the music of Richard Wagner. Wagner was a known anti-Semite, who was a hero to Adolf Hitler, although he died fifty years before Hitler rose to power. Melinda speaks with Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about why Wagner's music was unofficially banned in Israel for so long.

California's Governor Gray Davis announced his plan to avert the possible bankruptcy of his state's utilities. Mr. Davis proposes that the state buy the transmission lines from the utilities. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Melinda talks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about some of the movies and performances that did not receive Oscar award nominations.

Melinda reviews the news of the week with NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.