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NPR's Scott Simon reviews the week's news with NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.

Super Bowl Sunday has turned into a major launching pad for ad campaigns. Highlights this year include a controversy over Miller Lite's beer ad featuring buxom, brawling women and Cadillac's continuing Led Zeppelin motif. And BMW is using a Web site to offer short films in an innovative promotional effort. NPR's Scott Simon and Barbara Lippert, ad critic for Adweek magazine.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Randall of the Texas Chili Parlor in Austin about the $41 hamburger he made last week using 24.2 pounds of ground beef. Mr. Randall says that his project was inspired by an innate Texas desire not to be outdone by a $41 Kobe beef burger now on sale at the Homestead in New York. The Texas burger was roughly the size of a manhole cover. It fed 50 people and was served on a specially baked bun.

NPR's Scott Simon looks at the matchups for Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVII with Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Ron Rapoport.

The NFL's Washington Redskins ask Virginia lawmakers to exclude players injured on the field from workers' compensation benefits. The NFL Players Union is fighting the move. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the seemingly bizarre possibility that Libya could chair the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

Filmmaker Ismail Merchant, of Merchant and Ivory fame, publishes a memoir called My Passage from India. It traces his steps from star-struck youngster in India to major force in the movie world. Merchant speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

His clothes may have been seen by more people than any other tailor on earth. And you probably don't know his name. On Tuesday, you'll get a chance to see his work, when the President of the United States gives his State of the Union speech in a hand-made suit from Georges De Paris. NPR's Kitty Eisele talks with the man known as "Tailor to the Presidents."

NPR's Tom Goldman took a detour across the border to Tijuana on his way to cover the Super Bowl in San Diego. He sent us this audio postcard.

A coalition of black media outlets seeks to promote HIV-AIDS awareness. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Diane Weathers, editor-in-chief of Essence magazine.