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The Pentagon announced today that NATO peacekeeping troops in Bosnia have been put on the highest state of alert because of fears of a possible terrorist attack. Noah talks to NPR's Martha Raddatz about the reasons for the alert and the vulnerability of NATO bases in Bosnia.

Scott with some thoughts about this week's announcement from NASA scientists that life may have existed on Mars.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that America Online is embarking on an expensive promotional campaign and switching stock exchanges in a bid to reposition itself in the face of growing competition. America Online grew to prominence as a NASDAQ stock, but is moving to the New York Stock Exchange as part of a broader campaign to increase public visibility.

Scott commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution with an essay and sounds from the institution's various museums in the nation's capital.

- Daniel talks with poet Edward Hirsch who says that reading and understanding a poem can be fun. "Relax and don't worry about missing every reference," he says. "Enjoy the experience of the language itself. Pay attention to the feelings it evokes in you." Hirsch reads and talks about Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art." He also reads his own poem, "Summer Surprised Us" (from his book EARTHLY MEASURES). Hirsch's article, "How to Read These Poems," appears in the Fall issue of DOUBLETAKE magazine. Hirsch teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

A former White House employee has told Senate investigators that she informed ex-personnel security chief Craig Livingstone that FBI background files were being gathered on former presidential aides. That's contrary to testimony from Livingstone. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Bandleader and pianist EDDI PALMIERI. Through his first band, La Perfecta, labeled "the band with the crazy roaring elephants," Palmieri was credited with originating Latin jazz's trombone sound in New York during the sixties. He has a new cd "Vortex" by RMM Records. Originally aired 6

Scott talks to Weekend Edition's gardening afficionado, Ketzel Levine (KET-zul luh-VEEN) about gardening tool design and the health hazards of horticulture. Guest Bonnie Lee Appleton, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Virginia Tech University and Extension Nursery Specialist at the Hampton Roads Acriculture Experiment Station, joins the discussion.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.

Daniel speaks with Cara De Silva, who edited the book "In memory's Kitchen." It's a cookbook written by women who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. The manuscript was handed off to several people over the years before it made its way to the daughter of the woman who started the book.