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LA Times movie critic Kenneth Turan reviews the movie 15-Minutes, which opens nationally this weekend.

NPR's Ketzel Levine explores the natural beauty of wildflowers in Arizona. Last fall the area got about 4 inches of rain, which made for an early-blooming, and record-setting wildflower season this year. (6:10-6:35) For more, check out Talking Plants.

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

Toni Randolph reports from Boston that the city's public transit authority has launched a new customer service campaign. Now, commuters who are delayed by at least half an hour by late trains and buses earn free rides.

When the German capital was moved to Berlin, a home and office were needed to be built for the Chancellor. The plans were approved by Helmut Kohl, but his successor Gerhard Schroeder has hinted he finds the massive glass-and-steel structure too grand. And now the public is feeling the same way. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

The National Basketball Association has players from Africa and Eastern Europe, even Australia, but not from China. That, however, might change soon. NPR's Rob Gifford has a profile of a seven foot six giant of a basketball player who has the best shot at being the first Chinese in the NBA.

Scott Simon talks with Matel Dawson, a forklift operator who has saved up, and now given away, more than 1.3 million dollars.

Scott talks with Mike Daisey, a former employee of Amazon.com who has produced a one-man show about his short career at Amazon. The show is called 21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com. It can be seen in its entirety on the web at http://mikedaisey.com.

Reporter Alice Furlaud, Radcliffe class of '51, visits her old haunts in Cambridge as Harvard is poised to select a new president.

Last week we asked listeners to suggest items they use every day which are poorly designed or could use some improvement. We'll listen to some of the responses.