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The host of Jazz with Jae Sinnett on WHRV-FM in Norfolk, Va., is also a recording artist. He tells Liane Hansen about his latest CD, The Sinnett Hearings.

A government scientist claims that his superiors are silencing his public statements on global warming. NASA climate expert James Hansen went public with these accusations in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck, the Schultz family of Bayou La Batre, Ala., was in danger of losing their home. But thanks to donations from a church and from strangers, the family is nearly done repairing their home. Their first meal there will be on Thanksgiving Day.

With some verbal sleight of hand, John Ciardi explores the origins of the words midriff and rib. They're relationship is not what it may seem, linguistically, at least.

Europe is investigating reports that the CIA has been operating secret detention centers in Eastern Europe. Steve Inskeep talks with Tom Malinowski, Washington director of the non-profit group Human Rights Watch. His group has been involved in making the evidence known.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Portia Cornell from Highland, Ca. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KVCR in San Bernadino.)

Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Danny Graves rediscovers his roots in Vietnam and hopes to generate interest in his sport while raising funds for a worthy cause.

Chris Elliott, son of the venerable humorist-performer Bob Elliott and a former Late Night with David Letterman gofer-turned-writer, has crafted a mystery-history, tragi-comedy, time-traveling work of literary fiction.

A federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Education accuses the state of censorship and political interference for using the word "genocide" in its high school curriculum to describe the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in Turkey during World War I. Plaintiffs in the suit say that designation is up for debate - but opponents say the evidence of genocide is clear.

NPR's Scott Simon muses on the new poetry collection of deposed Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic. In 1995, the U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb, for his role in a 1995 massacre in Srebrenica and the 1992 siege of Sarajevo. He remains in hiding.