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cott talks with Paula Wheeler who is organizing the first annual North American Wife Carrying contest in Bethel, Maine. More information on this event is available at www.wifecarrying.com.

50 years ago this month a rag tag team of soccer enthusiasts from the United States went to Brazil to participate in the World Cup Soccer Tournament. They played a very strong, very self-assured English team and won. Scott speaks about this game with Peter Chapman, reporter for the Financial Times of London and author of the new book The Goalkeeper's History of Britain. (Fourth Estate Press, UK)

Liane talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the future of the US national missile defense system, in the aftermath of Friday night's test failure. Shuster says the latest failure may delay, but not ultimately derail, the deployment of the system.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr predicts that with the Pentagon, politicians and major aerospace corporations supporting the missile defense initiative, there's a good chance that, despite the failure, pressure will continue to be exerted to keep the program going.

Weekend Edition essayist Andy Borowitz has his own personal (and humorous) take on the potential social benefits from the Human Genome map.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is David Slesnick from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WDUQ.)

Host Bob Edwards talks to reporter John McLean about the recovery efforts in Manila after a mountain of garbage collapsed on a shantytown killing at least 71 people. Approximately one-hundred people were injured and an unknown number still missing. The mountain of garbage was weakened by a typhoon that swept through the Philippines last week.

In the second installment of our series on national missile defense, NPR's Mike Shuster examines some of the technical problems scientists would have to overcome, in order to make a missile defense system operational and effective.

Host Bob Edwards talks to John Bogle a personal finance pioneer and founder of the Vanguard Group, about mutual funds. Bogle criticizes the management practices of mutual funds and provides advise for consumers who are interested in investing in these funds.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Hirsch Goodman of the Jerusalem Report about Prime Minister Ehud Barak's political problems at home, in trying to negotiate with the Palestinians. Any transfer of land from Israel to the Palestinians would require the approval of Israel's Knesset, and Barak is in a relatively weak position with regard to that parliamentary body.