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A year ago today, Zapatista rebels began their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Since then, there has been an assisination, the economy nosedived and peso was dramatically devalued. Daniel talks to NPR's David Welna in Mexico City about one of the worst years in the country's history.

Daniel talks with author Jayne Anne Phillips about her latest novel "Shelter," which takes place at a summer camp in West Virginia. Phillips writes vividly and poetically about the experiences of adolescent girls at the camp ... a place of seeming innocence but one in which passion, danger and perversity all emerge to change their young lives forever.

How can we be sure a company really is doing right by the environment?

NPR's Wendy Kaufman examines the issue of crime in a city that barely gave it any thought until a few years ago. Now with crime on the increase, citizens in Washington State want to know what their leaders in the other Washington are going to do to make them safer.

During the mid-term elections there was a great outcry for less government in people's lives. NPR's John Burnett talks to small business owners in Texas, who hope the new Republican-majority Congress will mean less red tape.

Many Americans are still complaining about the state of education in America. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a "charter school" in Michigan... one of many such special schools across the country that are providing an alternative to a standard public school education.

SIMON/ARMY-McCARTHY HEARINGS: WE NOTE THAT TODAY, IN 1954, THE TELEVISED SENATE ARMY-McCARTHY HEARINGS BEGAN.

SUSAN STAMBERG AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE END OF THE REPUBLICAN'S "FIRST ONE HUNDRED DAYS" AND THE OTHER TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Jacki talks to Mindy Cameron of the Seattle Times, Tom Bray of the Detroit News, and Nick Monsurat of the Burlington (VT) Free Press about the first 100 days of Congress.

Wade Goodwyn reports on the the status of efforts to find the more than 150 people still missing form the bombing in Oklahoma City. Heavy rains and stong winds have hampered efforts and increased fears that the building is unstable and could collapse further.