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Maxwell Taylor Kennedy is the youngest son of the late Robert Kennedy. He edited a collection of his father's private journal entries called Make Gentle The Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. He reads from the speech his father gave on the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated. (REBROADCAST from 6

Scott Simon talks with Sherry Sabin. Mrs. Sabin's sixth grade class contributed the first three hundred and seventy-eight dollars of the 1.6 million dollars it took to build the newest addition to the FDR memorial - a statue of Roosevelt sitting in a wheelchair. The statue was unveiled on Wednesday.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on what some are decrying as the "suburbanization" of New York City. She talks to one design critic who laments that national franchises are replacing the city's local greasy spoons, coffeehouses and boutiques, and taking over street-life. (6:40

Scott talks with the Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine, about noxious weeds. Ketzel says that one region's common garden plant can be another regions invasive pest. (6:00) NOTE: There is plenty more dirt to be found in our Talking Plants section.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports on a group of six Thai elephants that have been honing their musical abilities. They just released their first CD. Hear a song from that CD entitled Temple Music. You can find out more at www.mulatta.org. (6:43-8:20)

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on a Supreme Court decision that hospitals cannot reinstate a practice of testing pregnant patients for drugs and turning over the results to the police, unless they get the woman's permission first. The justices ruled 6-3 that testing women who did not understand that the results could be used to prosecute them was a violation of the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches.

The jazz icon turns 85 on Dec. 6. He'll celebrate with a concert in London where he will be joined by the London Symphony. There are several recent collections of his work: The Dave Brubeck Collection, which reissues five of his classic out-of-print LPs, and Dave Brubeck: Time Signature: A Career Retrospective.

The fifth and final season of the acclaimed HBO drama The Wire has its season premiere Jan. 6. Fresh Air's TV critic has a preview.

Noah Adams talks with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, who's happily playing the blues at 72. He has a new album out called Long Way Home. Gatemouth is on the album by some new and old friends like Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Ry Cooder and Maria Maldon. [GITANES JAZZ PRODUCTIONS] (6:00) (IN S

Writer RICHARD FORD. His book "Independence Day" (Knopf) has just won a Pulitzer Prize, as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award. It's the sequel to FORD's "The Sportswriter" FORD is also the author of "Wildlife," "The Ultimate Good Luck," "A Piece of My Heart," and "Rock Springs." (REBROADCAST from 6

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that a jury in Brooklyn has ordered computer maker Digital Equipment to pay nearly $6 million to three women who suffered disabling injuries from working on Digital's computer keyboards. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say this is the first time such a suit has succeeded. Digital says it will appeal the decision.

Commentator Reynolds Price has just had his annual MRI to check for cancer. He finds a strange kind of peace inside the close quarters of the 6 foot long tube in the radiology department --reciting the contents of his longterm memory: prayers and poems and sonnets. He was again free of cancer this year.

The U.S. unemployment rate rises to 6 percent in November, startling many economists. Some analysts say the development is evidence the economy has slowed since the summer. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

A powerful storm dumps snow, sleet and freezing rain on the Middle Atlantic states and the Northeast. An estimated 1.6 million people are left without power. North Carolina is especially hard-hit. Scott Jagow of member station WFAE reports.

Friday's Labor Department report on unemployment says more than 100,000 jobs were cut in December, an unexpectedly high number. But the overall unemployment rate holds at 6 percent. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

They are the creators of the original TV reality show An American Family. The 1973 PBS series followed the Loud Family. The new film Lance Loud! A Death In An American Family premieres on PBS January 6, 2003 at 9 p.m.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that President Bush is on the road. This week he'll visit four states to promote his budget proposals, including his $1.6 trillion tax-cut over a ten-year period. Today, the president flies to Chicago.

A new book subtitled A Faaabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol tells the unexpectedly normal visit Andy's nephew James and his family paid in 1962 to Warhol's New York loft. Aug. 6 would have been Warhol's 75th birthday. Karen Michel reports.

By a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden's plan to cancel $400 billion in student loan debt.

The Colorado Supreme Court has decided that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again because he encouraged the Jan. 6 insurrection.