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On Weekend Edition Saturday, Bryan Gruley, colleague of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, talks with John Ydstie and plays a song he wrote with Pearl's son in mind for a planned benefit concert.

We hear more communications from the plane carrying newly sworn-in President Lyndon B. Johnson and the White House Situation Room as the plane returns to Washington, D.C., from Dallas.

In the early 1900s, Billy Sunday sold what was then a unique brand of muscular, testosterone-laden Christianity. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with biographer Robert F. Martin about the influential preacher.

A truly global economy and the ever-expanding reach of the Internet are compelling us all to "think globally." Yet the results of a new National Geographic-Roper study reveals young people aged 18 to 24 remain woefully ignorant about geography and world affairs. In fact, 83 percent of Americans quizzed couldn't find Afghanistan on a map. All Things Considered guest host Lynn Neary talks with National Geographic Society President John Fahey about the quiz results -- test your knowledge, and take the quiz online.

The state of Oregon and the AARP are trying to make it easier for patients to obtain the proper prescriptions at the best prices. The state and the senior citizen group are providing an online comparison of four different types of drugs: for pain, blood pressure, cholesterol and arthritis. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.

Private relief organizations are increasingly alarmed by their inability to plan for the consequences of war in Iraq.

U.N.-led weapons inspections resume in Iraq for the first time in four years.

This interview was recorded before his Seinfeld fame. Comedian, a new documentary following Seinfeld on a recent stand up tour, is showing in theaters now. The hit TV show, Seinfeldwhich catapulted the comedian to fame, won 6 Emmy Awards before ending its run in 1999. Seinfeld is also author of the bestselling book SeinLanguageand a new children book, Halloween. (REBROADCAST FROM 9/2/87)

Doctors are struggling to treat two diseases that have reached epidemic proportions in American children: asthma and obesity. Physicians at Boston's Children's Hopsital have given cameras to their young patients to document what goes on outside the doctor's office. And as Madge Kaplan reports, the tapes are revealing a side of kids' lives doctors rarely see, but probably should.

Every Thanksgiving season, Susan Stamberg shares her classic family recipe for cranberry relish. This year, some NPR fans share their own relish rituals, reviews and serving suggestions.