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His TV series, Primetime Glick, is a spoof of celebrity talk shows. Short plays Jiminy Glick, the self-absorbed host of the fictitious talk show. He interviews A-list celebrity guests, but often gets information about these guests wrong. The new season of Primetime Glick premieres this weekend. Martin Short was a cast member on both Saturday Night Live and SCTV. His movies include Father of the Bride, The Three Amigos, and Innerspace.

Independent Producer Ben Shapiro brings us the latest installment in the New York Works series about occupations that are gradually disappearing from the nation's largest city. Today, Cali Rivera tells us about his business making cowbells at his workshop in the Bronx.

Forty years ago John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, getting the U.S. space program moving with a vengeance and helping spark a new commitment to TV news. Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite reported the event to a live television audience on that day in 1962, and he offers his reflections. (NPR aired the following correction to this story on air on Feb. 21, 2002:"I'm crushed. The once most trusted man America has let me down." This is from Hilton Evans in Randolph, Massachusetts. "Mine will likely be only one of dozens if not hundreds of e-mails correcting Walter Cronkite's assertion that Velcro was one of many spinoffs of the U.S. space program. Velcro was not invented by NASA. It wasn't even invented in the United States. Velcro was invented by Swiss inventor and hiker George de Mestral who noticed how flower burrs stuck to his pants. Upon examining the burrs with a microscope, he noticed each burr was covered with tiny fur grabbing hooks. Mestral realized he could use this natural design to create an alternative to the zipper. Mestral's idea was patented in 1955 after he perfected a process for creating the microhooks in nylon.")

The Library of Congress has one of only three "perfect" copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Library patrons can view it only from behind thick glass, and only one person is allowed to actually touch the pages. But a project to take high-resolution digital images of each page is expected to give scholars a powerful new way to study the famous book.

Andrea Yates, accused of drowning her five children, goes on trial Monday. She has a history of postpartum psychosis. NPR's Joanne Silberner tells of another woman's bout with the disorder. Shelley Ash's story is proof that the condition is frightening -- and treatable.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from New York on what Russian President Vladimir Putin said last night during a special call-in program on National Public Radio. He talked to NPR's Robert Siegel and answered questions from NPR listeners. Before the broadcast, the Russian President visited the site of the World Trade Center disaster and met with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Muhammad Ali is one of the most admired sports stars in America today. Fewer than 30 years ago however, he was a clear symbol of a divided nation. In part one of our look at the life of Muhammad Ali, NPR's Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the former champ about his controversy that surrounded him both inside and outside the ring.

Sandy Tolan reports for American Radio Works on the long Middle Eastern history of animosity toward the West, and America in particular. He says the Arab suspicion of the West reaches back to the days of the Christian Crusades, and has been compounded by more recent history, such as American support for Israel. There is a tension in modern Jordan and Egypt, for example, between a sense of great pride in Arab culture and a sense of defeat by the culture of the West. American films and freedom are admired by many, but American foreign policy is not. American Radio Works in the documentary project of National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio.

Mandel's latest work is an ingeniously constructed, deeply absorbing novel that summons up three fully realized worlds in three distinct time periods — including the 25th century.

Tony Kushner's new play, Homebody/Kabul, couldn't be more timely -- a drama about the clash of East and West, set in London and Kabul, the Afghan capital. Yet it was four years in the making, finished last winter, and wasn't modified after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. All Things Considered co-host Noah Adams talks with Kushner about his new theatrical vision.