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Documentarian Julian Crandall-Hollick opens his series on the pavement dwellers of Mumbai with Ragpicking on Malabar Hill. He tags along with a group of young boys who spend their days prowling streets and alleys looking for castoffs they can sell. The four-part series continues through June on Weekend Edition Sunday.

Journalist Martin Meredith's new book is called Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (Public Affairs). Later this week, Zimbabwe holds presidential elections, which means Mugabe's presidency is in jeopardy. The book chronicles Mugabe's transformation from political visionary to violent dictator. Meredith has now spent many years writing about Africa -- first as a foreign correspondent for the London Observer and Sunday Times, and now as an author and commentator. His other books include, In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa's New Era and Nelson Mandela.

John Lasseter, Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. Lasseter was one of the founding members of the computer animated filmmaking company. He served as Director and Animator of the feature films Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and A Bugs Life. He was also Executive Producer of Monsters, Inc. Toy Story was the first computer-animated feature film. Lasseter also directed a number of shorts for Pixar, including Tin Toy, Reds Dream and Luxo, Jr. Tin Toy won an Oscar in 1988 for Best Animated Short Film. Lasseter joined Lucasfilms Computer Division in 1984, and then helped create Pixar in 1986. He previously worked as an animator for Walt Disney.

Irish writer Nuala OFaolain. Her first novel, My Dream of You, (Riverhead Books) has just come out in paperback. Her critically acclaimed 1998 memoir, Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman was on the New York Times bestseller list. OFaolain is also a columnist for the Irish Times; she has been at the paper for over 12 years. This interview was first broadcast on April 2, 2001.

The Canada lynx, protected under the Endangered Species Act, is at the center of an upcoming congressional inquiry. Three scientists stand accused of rigging a study on the wild cat's population in order to keep forest habitats in Rocky Mountain states off limits. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports. (The online version of this story was corrected online on February 22, 2002: In NPR's online story Lynx Conservation Under Fire, we reported that a congressional committee has called a hearing to investigate allegations of fraud in research on the Canada lynx. We wrote online that wildlife biologist Michael Schwartz's "work -- and that of nearly 500 other scientists involved in the national lynx survey -- is now embroiled in controversy. Last December, several of the survey's biologists were accused of rigging results by mislabeling hairs to pass them off as having come from captive lynx in forests where the animals had never been spotted." In fact, Michael Schwartz's work on the lynx, published recently in Nature magazine, has nothing to do with the National Lynx Survey and is not currently involved with any congressional investigations. Michael Schwartz wrote in to say of his research: "You have taken something that was not under controversy and now placed it under controversy." )

Giant Buddhas stood vigil over the Afghan town of Bamiyan until the Taliban destroyed the statues, causing worldwide outrage. When the Taliban were defeated and driven from the area, they left poverty and misery in their wake. Scott Simon reports for Weekend Edition Saturday.

When Enron said it was seeking a new name, listeners of NPR's All Things Considered came to the rescue. The show asked listeners for suggestions and today announced the most popular: "End-Run." Read some of the other suggested names, and submit your own to NPR's online discussion board. (3:00)

On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. Moore was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and Galloway, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. Moore and Galloway wrote a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young.(Random House) Its been made into a movie, We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson. Galloway has a small part in the film. This interview originally aired on Nov. 11, 1992.

During the Great Depression, the U.S. government began an unprecedented effort to record the sights and sounds of American folk life. Producer Barrett Golding uncovered a wealth of music and interviews from Florida in the 1930s, reflecting the culture of the Jim Crow South.

Intrepid Gardening Correspondent, NPR's Ketzel Levine concludes her Armchair Gardener series with stories of waterbed heaters and tomatoes, plastic wrap and forsythia. Listeners tell the lengths they'll go to protect their greenery from winter's chill.