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NPR's Anne Garrels previews today's parliamentary elections in Kosovo.

Scott speaks with Robert Beecroft who spearheads the US State Department's efforts to train foreigners in landmine excavation.

Scott speaks with Martha Stewart about her new CD Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Scott speaks with Gene Wilkes, the owner of the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring, Maryland. His diner was featured last Sunday in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip--a strip which touted the virtues and endurance of diners.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the Jackie Chan film "Legend of Drunken Master."

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled that a man facing capital murder charges was not deprived of a fair trial even though his lawyer slept through the trial. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

Jazz composer and bandleader Maria Schneider went hang gliding in Rio a couple of years ago. The experience was so vivid for her that she turned it into a composition. Schneider describes her trip to Rio, the hang gliding, and how she made them into music. She says that at certain points in the composition, the orchestra is the wind and the soloist is the hang glider, riding on the wind. "Hang Gliding" is on the CD "Allegresse," http://www.enjarecords.com

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a training exercise in which National Guard troops responded to a mock chemical weapons attack by terrorists. Units with this type of training will be detached to big public events such as the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President-elect George W. Bush, who today resigned from the only political office he has ever held -- governor of Texas. The emotional speech by Bush ended 6 years at the helm in Austin and comes less than a month before he is to move to his new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Meanwhile, jockeying continues to go on behind the scenes for filling the remaining Cabinet slots.