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Michael talks to Peter Samuel who recently wrote a paper for the Cato Institute entitled "Highway aggravation...the case for privatizing the highways." Samuel argues that if roads were turned over to private companies they would be both better maintained and less congested.

Critic Bob Mondello reports that actor Jim Carrey will be making 20 million dollars for his next film. Hollywood, Bob says, is wondering just how deep its pockets go.

Daniel talks with New Age musician Paul Winter who recently played his saxophone in Belt Woods Maryland, the site of the oldest forest on the East coast and the highest density of song birds in North America. Winter is playing with the birds of Belt Woods to try and raise awareness about the plight of the forest, who's owners, the Episcopal Church want to cut down.

2: Writer CATHLEEN SCHINE. She has a new book The Love Letter (Houghton Mifflin). SCHINE has written three previous novels: Alice in Bed, To the Bird House, and Rameau's Niece. She has also written for the New York Times Book Review, Vogue, and the Village Voice.

Daniel talks with physicist Andrew Fracknoy (FRAK-noy)...about the discovery of a belt of comets on the edge of our solar system comprised of 200-million chunks of ice. The discovery was announced this week at an annual meeting of astronomers.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT "ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS," A BRITISH TV SERIES CURRENTLY AIRING ON CABLE TELEVISION'S COMEDY CENTRAL.

Danny speaks with writer Tina Rosenberg about her new book, called The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism (Random House). They discuss how the people of the former East Germany and Czechoslovakia are dealing with their communist pasts.

World Music Critic, MILO MILES reviews Arab pop album "Sif Safaa: New Music From The Middle East" (Hanan, "Ya Leyl A'' ah").

SIMON/MOTHER TERESA: SCOTT SIMON REFLECTS ON MOTHER TERESA'S CURRENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE SHE HAS BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT HER WORK AND HER ORDER THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY. (MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - 335 EAST 145TH STREET - BRONX, NY 10451)

7 - Daniel talks with NPR's John Ydstie, who's in Halifax, Canada, where the Group of Seven economic summit ended today. The so-called G-7 spent most of their time on political issues...Chechnya and Bosnia. And today, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who's been in Halifax since yesterday, met one on one with President Clinton.