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Scott and NPR's Daniel Schorr review the weeks news.

Robert and Noah talk about today's Supreme Court decision which struck down congressional redistricting laws in Texas and North Carolina. We'll also hear tape from a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and her reaction to the court decision.

NPR's Joe Neel reports that scientists have discovered how the AIDS virus gains a foothold in the immune system soon after an individual becomes infected. The long-sought discovery is an important step in understanding how the AIDS virus infects and destroys the immune system. The finding could help explain how some people appear to be able to resist infection, and should lead to new ways to prevent infection and treat people who have already become infected.

for disciplining their children and endorses curfews to help reduce juvenile crime.

First time novelist Jane Mendelsohn has written a book titled "I Was Amelia Earhart." Ms Mendelsohn imagines what it would have been like to fly into the night with Earhart's navigator Fred Noonan. The book is published by Alfred Knopf.

Saturday will preside over "Stand for Children" one of the biggest gatherings of child advocacy groups ever the nation's capital.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says while it may be tempting for Robert Dole to use this week's whitewater convictions in his campaign...he would be wise not to. He says it is better not to let Whitewater be seen as just a poltical whip...but as a genuine question on the character of the president.

for Israel and hope peace talks would go forward under Benjamin Netanyahu as Premier.

Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary apologized today for mismanaging her expensive overseas official travel. But she also defended the trips, in her testimony before the House Commerce investigations subcommittee. O'Leary said her missions abroad generated business for American firms and benefitted U-S foreign policy. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and Melor (MELL-or) Sturua (stir-OO-ah), Senior Fellow at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, about Sunday's elections in Russia.