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Scott reviews the news of the week with NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.

The Federal Reserve Board's interest rate cut this week was meant to stimulate investment. But as NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports, small businesses still need more help.

A judge in Atlanta ruled yesterday that a book patterned after Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone With the Wind is not a parody, and therefore not constitutionally protected. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Scott speaks with Malika Oufkir. For about 20 years, Ms. Oufkir and her family was held captive by King Hassan of Morocco. She writes about it in a book titled Stolen Lives (with Michele Fitoussi, Hyperion) and speaks with Scott. (12:00) You can find out more information about her on in our Malika Oufkir feature page.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Guatemala, one of the world's leading centers for international adoptions. Americans are turning more often to Latin America to adopt, and most are arranged legally, but there are problems.

A private aircraft carrying American missionaries was shot down by the Peruvian air force yesterday when they mistook it for a drug smuggling plane. Host Lisa Simeone talks to freelance reporter Sharon Stevenson in Lima, Peru.

Lisa speaks with two former mayors of Cincinnati, Ohio: David Mann, who is white, and Dwight Tillery, who is black. They discuss the racial tensions that seem present in Cincinnati after the shooting death of an unarmed black citizen by a white police officer. Because of rioting and looting, a public curfew was imposed, which ended last week.

Lisa speaks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about the talks amongst world leaders at the Summit.

NPR's David Molpus reports on an alluring new book about getting the most out of your employees.

In our third monthly installment of Along for the Ride, guest reporter Michele Serros travels in search of mole and Mexican roots in New York City. Poet Serros is author of Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard (Riverhead Books).