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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the year in sports. From the Olympic figure skating flap in Salt Lake City to the controversy over women at Augusta National, women were at the center of two big sports stories in 2002. Ron and Scott also make early Super Bowl predictions.

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announces nine proposals to rebuild at the site of the World Trade Center. This group of design finalists is intended to be more interesting than some proposals publicized last summer. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports an international arbitration panel will decide if the United States has violated a provision in NAFTA that would allow Mexican trucks on all U-S Highways. The dispute, between Mexico and the US centers on whether Mexican trucks are so unsafe as to pose a threat to US motorists. If the arbitration fails to resolve the problem, the two countries could impose trade sanctions and tariffs on each other.

David D'Arcy reports on Tawainese filmmaker Edward Yang and his latest movie, Yi Yi , which is the first of his works to be distributed in the United States. The movie's title is literally "one one" in Chinese, and the drama centers on a family in Taipei. Yang says his movies haven't been "Chinese" enough for American audiences...they deal with contemporary Chinese life rather than the exotica these audiences expect.

NPR's Greg Allen reports that shopping mall developers are now taking a page from the open-air centers and homey main streets they once nearly put out of business. Malls are facing tough competition from big box retailers. So they're striving to create "quality of place" by opening up the roof, and adding coffee shops and outdoor benches.

The case centers on whether the state of Maine can deny public tuition money to the family of a student who wanted to attend a school that offers an explicitly Christian education.

Dr. Amy Drendel of Children's Wisconsin Emergency Department and Trauma Center explains how she and her colleagues have been helping children who were injured at the parade.

As overhauling Social Security takes center stage in Washington, perhaps no group is watching the debate more closely than middle-aged Americans.

The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention issue new guidelines aimed at minimizing the risk of disease transmissions from animals to humans. The move comes after several Florida children contracted severe kidney disease following visits to petting zoos earlier this month.

A bomb explodes in a shopping center in Jounieh, a Christian town near Beirut, killing at least two people and wounding five. It's the second deadly attack against an anti-Syrian stronghold in five days. Rami Khouri, executive editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon, discusses how the attacks affect the country's security situation.