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Ice climbing is technical, cold and can be dangerous. That doesn't hold disabled climbers back.

We remember the 34 other passengers who perished yesterday when there plane crashed just outside Dubrovnik. In addition to Secretary Brown, the passengers included Commerce officials, business executives, journalists and two pilots.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI THE DEATH THIS WEEK OF SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RON BROWN, WHO WAS ON A MISSION TO THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Shirley Brown from nderson, South Carolina. (Her public radio station is WEPR, Greenville, SC.

Americans -- especially young Americans -- are losing the battle against fat. The percentage of teenagers who are overweight has doubled in the past two decades. Science reporter Frank Browning reports that the reason has to do with a culture that encourages overconsumption.

Alan Cheuse, who teaches writing at George Mason University in Virginia, reviews a new collection of short stories by Rick Moody, titled Demonology. (3:15) Demonology is published by Little Brown and Company.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Shawn Brown from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WDUQ at Duquenes University in Pittsburgh.)

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Edith Brown from arberth, Pennsylvania. Her public radio station is WHYY in Philadelphia.)

Many people thought Laura Bates was out of her mind when she offered to teach Shakespeare in the maximum security wing of an Indiana prison. But the prisoners found a deep connection with the playwright's words. Laura Bates talks about her experience in her new book Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard. She speaks with host Michel Martin.

Big banks are facing a new reality in Washington: Democrats control all levers of power and they are not shy about their intentions to ratchet up pressure on the sector.