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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Marriage: A Duet. It's a book of two novellas by Anne Taylor Fleming.

Robert Siegel talks with James Randi, founder of the James Randi Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to debunk pseudoscientific claims. They discuss what scientists should be looking for when testing to see if a baby is a clone.

He got his start with the 1970s rock group Roxy Music. He has a solo career now and his most recent album is Frantic. [The audio for this segment is unavailable due to Internet rights issues.]

"Amazing Grace" has become a pop, folk and gospel standard since Englishman John Newton, a slave trader-turned-abolitionist, wrote the words in the 1700s. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Steve Turner about his new book and the song's remarkable history.

Over two years, author Po Bronson interviewed more than 900 people who had weighed what Bronson calls "the most obvious and universal question on our plates as human beings." Bronson turned the interviews into a book, "What Should I Do With My Life?" On Morning Edition, he describes what he learned; and in an exclusive interview with NPR Online, he shares some life-change revelations, including his own.

Weekend Edition Sunday essayist Andy Borowitz acknowledges Time magazine's naming of three whistleblowers as persons of the year by providing a list of his own.

The official Web site of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea — AKA, North Korea — is http://www.korea-dpr.com. Wait. It's dot-COM? Host Scott Simon speaks with Alejandro Cao de Benos, the site's author.

There are hundreds of charities operating in the United States, all looking for donations. How do you know which ones will use your money the way you intend? All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, about some of the potential pitfalls of charitable giving.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with comedian Jake Johannsen about some of the events from 2002 that made it into his stand-up routine.

John Cephas and Phil Wiggins are two musicians from different generations who have played Piedmont blues together for 25 years. The two perform their music and talk with NPR's Scott Simon about their distinctive brand of the blues.