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In Louisiana, two men fought over a life jacket, one lost and drowned, the other survived and is now charged with murder. John Ydstie talks with Yale law Professor Kate Stith about the ethics, and history involved in this sort of trial.

JY/Reel Therapy-- John talks to Dr. Gary Solomon, a man who believes that Hollywood can help you solve your problems.

John Ydstie discusses the markets and the economic outlook with Mark Zandi of economy.com and Diane Swonk of Banc One.

Texas Tech University has decided to hire the highly combustible former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight. Knight was fired by Indiana after a series of confrontations with players, officials and fans over the years. He also won three national championships at Indiana.

John talks to Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rappaport about the latest round of NCAA basketball playoffs.

NPR's John Burnett reports on a radio station in San Antonio that broadcasts the locale of Border Patrol agents to undocumented workers.

Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports on a recent survey of teen gambling in Connecticut. The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling found that 87-percent of high school students had gambled at some point in their lives. The state-sponsored lottery was their favorite form of legalized gambling.

Lisa talks with New York Times food critic William Grimes. Grimes, who writes about tasting chicken and other foods for a living, was very surprised to find a living breathing, scratching, pecking chicken in his own Queens, New York, backyard.

Ahead of his delivery of a Jefferson Lecture in Washington, D.C., playwright Arthur Miller talks about his lecture topic: Politics and the Art of Acting. He calls it an "attempt to contrast the sincerity of certain people with the performance psychology of so many of them," from FDR, Clinton and Gore to Reagan and George W. Bush.

Are we in a slowdown, or the beginning of a recession? The Economic Cycle Research Institute studies the stock market and other economic indicators, and NPR's Kathy Schalch has a report on what it thinks is coming.