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Scott speaks with Weekend Edition Saturday's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the last weekend of the National Football League regular season before the playoffs.

When subway workers started digging underneath Los Angeles, they discovered fossils from the city's pre-historic past. Lisa speaks with the L.A. Transit Authority's paleontologist, Bruce Lander.

Injection drug use is a leading cause of the spread of HIV. Some health professionals are trying to curtail the sharing of used needles among drug addicts by giving them prescriptions to buy clean ones at local drugstores. But is this practice legal? From member station WBUR in Boston, Jason Beaubien reports.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the recent announcements of appointees by President-elect George W. Bush. Bush named New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman for the appointment of administrator to the Environmental Protection Agency and former Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for the appointment to Attorney General of the United States.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and John Nichols, editorial page editor of the Capitol Times in Madison Wisconsin and columnist for The Nation Magazine about President-elect Bush's cabinet appointments.

Liane talks live with NPR's Don Gonyea, who has been covering President-elect George W. Bush's transition out of the Texas Governor's office to the White House. Bush made several cabinet appointments this past week; more are expected this coming week.

Last night a Los Angeles judge overturned the convictions of three LAPD officers involved in the corruption scandal in which police were found to brutalize and falsely arrest innocent citizens of crimes they didn't commit. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell recalls his childhood memory of hearing the song I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash in the backseat of a car. Crowell's story is called I Walk the Line-Revisted, and is set to be published in a collection next year.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reads a Southwest version of A Visit From St. Nicholas.

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Antoine de Saint Exupery , reporter Alice Furlaud pays tribute to the Franch aviator and beloved author of The Little Prince.