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All Things Considered presents a survey of the results of a search for audio artifacts from the World Trade Center towers. We hear samples of the sort of material people have sent in thus far. Among them, Hispanic workers who listened to Spanish stations while they cleaned the towers at night; marriages at the WTC; and the actual sound of sightseers atop the structures. Further stories about the sounds of the WTC will be heard later in the year. Listeners who want to contribute their own tapes or stories should call 202-408-0300. The project is a collaboration between NPR News, independent producers Jay Allison and the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), along with member station WNYC.

In an exclusive report for Morning Edition from NPR's Steve Inskeep, residents of an Afghan village claim American soldiers killed at least 18 people who were actually loyal to the new government -- and that American officials paid the victims' relatives $1,000 in reparations.

Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton offers up three new CDs of a "minimalist" tone.

Turns out humans aren't the most destructive creatures on Earth. Microbes who spend their lives decomposing leaves are. Commentator Bill Harley has a song about soil bacteria gleefully at work creating entropy.

U.S. snowboarders won Gold, Silver and Bronze in the men's halfpipe competition today at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Picabo Street will have to wait at least another day in her quest to win a third Olympic skiing medal. The women's downhill was postponed because of high winds. And a German luger narrowly missed becoming the first Winter Olympian to win four straight gold medals in the same event. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Howard Berkes, who is at the Games. (3:30)

Language expert Richard Lederer takes on the misuse of "hopefully," subject-verb agreement, and "one of the only" versus "one of the few." Send Lederer a message about your own pet peeve, and listen to past shows in this series. (5:00)

Former Enron chair Kenneth Lay sat stone-faced before a Senate committee, refusing to explain what brought down the energy giant. He joins five others who have invoked the Fifth Amendment over the Enron scandal. NPR's Emily Harris has the latest for All Things Considered.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports the International Skating Union is conducting an "internal assessment" of the controversial judging in this week's pairs skating competition. A skating union official confirmed that the American referee of the pairs competition has complained about pressure being applied to at least one of the judges in the competition. The Russian pair of Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze received the gold medal over Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier on Monday, setting off the first major furor of the Winter Games.

Actress Elaine Stritch launches her one woman show, At Liberty, at Broadways Neil Simon Theatre February 13, 2002. Stritch is an established Broadway star whos appeared in the hits Company,Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Bus Stop and Love Letters. Shes also been in many TV shows and films and shes the narrator for the PBS series EGG: the Arts Show.

Producer Ben Shapiro brings us another installment in the New York Works series, about jobs that are slowly disappearing from the city of New York. Today we meet Charlie Zimmerman, who works for Rosenwach Wood Tanks. Rosewach is one of the few companies left that maintains water tanks on top of many New York buildings.