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Scott speaks with Graeme Simpson, director of the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. South Africa is in the midst of a state-sponsored reconciliation process. Victims and perpetrators of violence under apartheid testify before the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The Inter-Continental hotel chain is running a contest where the entrants are guests who've stolen things from their rooms. Scott speaks with Scott Boone, Inter-Continental's vice president of sales and marketing.

Robert talks with Lawrence Kobelinski is the associate provost and a professor of forensic science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. They discuss the news that the laboratories of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have mishandled evidence from the Oklahoma City bombing, and what that means for expert witnesses around the nation.

Linda talks with Tyler Nordgren, a graduate student of astronomy at Cornell University. They talks about how Carl Sagan, who died today at the age of 62, inspired him to study astronomy. Nordgren used to rush home from school to watch Sagan's PBS series "Cosmos" on television, and eventually decided to study interacting galaxies as a result.

Retailers and manufacturers of computer software have turned their attention to girls this year. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on what parents can expect to find on the market this holiday season. Little girls can direct their own animated Barbie movie...join a virtual clique to talk about dating; creat invoices for their babysitting businesses; or find out "the hows and whys" of their developing bodies.

the growing use of cellular telephones: fraudulently charging calls to other people's phone numbers; and illegally eavesdropping on other people's cellular conversations. The former involves a practice known as, 'cloning,' in which a person's cell phone number is replicated; the latter involves the use of a scanner, which enables someone to listen in on calls.

The budget of the District of Columbia has been in trouble for years, and President Clinton has made a proposal to help the city in his new federal budget. Under the plan, about three-point-nine billion dollars of federal money would be spent on Washington, D-C over the next five years. Nearly half of that money would go to expand, renovate and operate the city's prisons. NPR's Kathleen Schlach reports on the problems that led to the District's prison crisis.

President Clinton's 1.69 trillion dollar budget proposal for the next fiscal year. When the plan arrived at the Capitol yesterday, Republicans and Democrats alike expressed guarded optimism that a budget compromise can be reached: something that hasn't happened in years.

Scott talks with Richard Elmore an education professor at Harvard about the prospects for developing a national educational standard.

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic, Elvis Mitchell, reviews the BBC television suspense series "Prime Suspect."