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Noah and Robert read some of the letters All Things Considered received from listeners this week. (4:00) Write to: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001 or send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

Sarah Bardeen reviews the self-titled CD by a California band called Call and Response. (3:30) Call and Response, is on Kindercore Records. See www.kindercore.com . Sarah Bardeen is an editor at http://www.Listen.com

Robert talks with Margaret Love, who was the pardon attorney at the Department of Justice from 1990-1997, about the unusual way the Clinton Administration handled pardons at the end of President Clinton's term. According to the Los Angeles Times, 47 of the pardons by President Clinton didn't go through the Department of Justice.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on difficulties facing Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore in dealing with his own party in the Old Dominion. Gilmore was recently named chairman of the Republican National Committee, but the obstacles facing his attempts to end his state's car tax and to name his successor as governor loom large.

After yesterday's incident outside the White House, the news media descended on the neighborhood of the Indiana man who was shot. Police shot Robert Pickett in the leg after he allegedly brandished a gun. Robert Siegel talks with Mike Jewel, a neighbor of Robert Pickett's, in Evansville, Indiana.

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.

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.

Two weeks after a 7-point-7 magnitude earthquake hit India, some villages are just beginning to receive tents to temporarily replace their damaged homes. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Varsamadhi.

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

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.