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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes this week's winner, Annie De Groff from Provo, Utah. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KUER at the University of Utah. Will Shortz gives a new challenge for everyone at home.

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean makes an online entreaty for $700,000 to fund advertising in Wisconsin, calling the state's Feb. 17 primary a "must win." Dean's candidacy has suffered since he took an early lead in polls, building support and a large war chest by relying on the Internet and the ardent support of his campaign workers. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Dean.

Roughly 10 percent of the delegates needed for the Democratic nomination are in play between Saturday and Tuesday, starting with caucuses in Michigan and Washington. Sen. John Kerry hopes to build on his lead. Sen. John Edwards and retired Gen. Wesley Clark are vying to become Kerry's chief rival. Former Vermont governor Howard Dean is pinning his fading hopes on the Feb. 17 Wisconsin primary. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Scott Horsley.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports from Seattle on the efforts of the Democratic presidential candidates and their campaign staff to get out the vote in Washington state's caucuses Saturday. A record turnout is expected and Sen. John Kerry has been gaining momentum there.

NPR's Scott Simon has one last conversation with A.J. Jacobs, the man reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. Jacobs has finally finished his task and is looking for new challenges.

The White House released documents Tuesday it says confirm President Bush fulfilled his Air National Guard duties during the Vietnam War era. Democrats have recently revived charges that Bush abandoned his Guard post. But many say the new documents are incomplete, and some question why the White House can't produce anyone who remembers serving with Bush. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

His songs include "By The Time I Get to Phoenix," "Up Up and Away," "Wichita Lineman," "Macarthur Park," "Galveston," "Didn't We," "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "All I Know." His songs have been recorded by Glenn Campbell, Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, Linda Ronstadt, Art Garfunkle and the Fifth Dimension. At one point in the 1960s, he had five Top 10 hits within a 20-month period. Webb has a lifetime achievement award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and he's been inducted into the Nashville Hall of Fame. There's a new album, One Life, by singer Michael Feinstein, that pays tribute to him.

Many states have no minimum age, but there's a push to raise it to a common international standard of 14. Experts say diversion programs should be provided without the criminalization of children.

The British humanitarian aid ship Sir Galahad arrives in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. Scuffles break out as the food and water shipments are distributed, and some Iraqis worry they would be left empty-handed. NPR's Jacki Lyden speaks with BBC correspondent Owen Bennett-Jones in Kuwait City.

NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the war in Iraq has generated increased interest in blogs, short for web logs. Blogging is the web-based practice of keeping an ever-updated personal account of some subject. Bloggers have become archivists, culling information they feel is not being presented in mainstream media and providing links to foreign news sources.