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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 reads letters from listeners.

Scott with some thoughts about the girl who was dismissed from the lead role in the musical Annie.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson about the continuing controversy over the pardons and commutations announced by then-President Clinton.

This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are not obliged to pay damages to disabled state employees under federal law. Lisa Simeone talks to Deborah Kaplan, executive director of the World Institute on Disability, based in Oakland, California, and Peter Blanck, director of the Law, Health Policy and Disability Center at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

Paul Brown reports on the legacy of the Highlander Folk School. It was founded in 1932 to help unionize workers during the Great Depression, mostly in Appalachia. But as times and issues changed the school devoted itself to the growing civil rights movement in the 1950's. Many historians say the Highlander Folk School was instrumental in organizing the fight for civil rights in America.

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

Scott speaks with the Math Guy, Keith Devlin, about the mathematics of knots. Knot theory has contributed enormously to both physics and, more recently, the understanding of DNA.

Scott talks with marketing director Pryce Boeye about the new "hold" message Budget Rent-A-Car has placed on it toll-free reservation line.