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Daniel visits Los Angeles County's General Hospital. A billion dollar budget shortfall will force the county later this month to layoff thousands of health care providers. The hospital is the largest public hospital in the nation and hundreds of thousands of people without health insurance will end up with no place to go.

SISTER MARY/ SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SISTER MARY OF THE CROSS, A CLOISTERED NUN FROM SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY WHO ATTENDED THIS WEEK'S MASS BY POPE JOHN PAUL IN NEARBY NEWARK.

SUSAN SPEAKS WITH SEVERN (SEH-vern) SUZUKI (soo-ZOO-kee), A TEENAGE ENVIRONMENTALIST FROM CANADA, WHO GAVE A MOVING SPEECH TO MEMBERS OF THE RIO SUMMIT IN 1992 AND WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE. SHE'S A MEMBER OF ECO, THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHILDREN'S ORGANIZATION.

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE START OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE SEASON THIS WEEKEND.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER REPORTS ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FACE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, AND ON QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE INDUSTRY BACKS ITS CLAIMS.

WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE NEW MOVIE "DEAD PRESIDENTS."

THE GREENBRIER HOTEL IN WEST VIRGINIA RECENTLY ACQUIRED SOMETHING THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDERNEATH ITS POSH INTERIOR SINCE THE 1950'S.

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on the performance this weekend of the rarely-heard Khachaturian Concerto which features the flexatone, an eerie-sounding percussion instrument which is very difficult to play.

SCOTT SIMON AND SIMON HOGGART OF LONDON'S GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Daniel talks with the authors of "Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work." Mauro Corvasce and Joseph Paglino are police detectives in New Jersey. They say many of the criminal acts portrayed on TV and in novels are inaccurate or incomplete.