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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Oliver Carling from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBUR.)

NPR's Anthony Brooks examines Vice President Al Gore's campaign, as he moves toward the Democratic Presidential nomination. Gore hopes to use the current economic boom to help propel him into the White House.

Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "Southern country clubs circa 1950," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented.

Federal, state and local authorities are preparing for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and attempting to prevent repeats of the kinds of protest demonstrations that stopped meetings of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last December. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Philadelphia.

The Montana Logging and Ballet Company offers some common sense solutions for the recent rash of bad political ads, which are soiling the nation's airwaves during this presidential election campaign.

Headed for the beach this fourth of July weekend? That's not such an easy task for some people, who have issues: specifically, bridge issues. Liane Hansen crosses the Chesapeake Bay Bridge with the help of a Vehicle Recovery Technician, whose job it is to drive people, who are afraid of heights and bridges, across the massive span.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Hong Kong, where citizens took to the streets this weekend to protest the growing economic crisis. Yesterday marked three years since the former British territory was handed back to China.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics on the mapping of the human genetic code; Armando Guiterrez, spokesman for the Miami relatives, on Elian Gonzalez's trip back home to Cuba; Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn) on the campaign finance investigations; Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker on his return to the New York; Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood, and James Bopp, general counsel of the National Right to Life Committee on the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion.

Noah and Ariel Dorfman, a professor at Duke University discuss the history of the Chilean ship, the B.E. Esmeralda. The ship is part of the Tall Ship celebration, and is visiting New London, Connecticut today. Of all the Tall Ships, this one is the most controversial, because it had been used to hold and torture political prisoners.

Computers can greatly improve the lives of people with disabilities, but Charlotte Renner reports that blind people can't access much of the very visual content on the World Wide Web. Adaptive software can help, but some web designers are trying to create sites that can be accessed by people who can't see well enough to point and click with a standard mouse. (4:30) (Note: The website mentioned in this story is http://www.cast.org. This link will open in a new browser window.)