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Book reviewer Nicki Leone asks who really deserves a lifetime achievement award for literary excellence.By Nicki Leone & WHQR public radioWilmington NC –…

March of the Penguins is -- by far -- the surprise hit movie of the year. The film about the Emperor Penguins' extraordinary breeding cycle is now the second-highest-grossing documentary ever, just behind Fahrenheit 9/11. It's also the highest grossing French film ever released in the United States.

Hookworm, a chronic infection that causes anemia and malnutrition, was once a problem in the U.S. Now, it's a disease of the world's poorest. A small band of scientists are working on a vaccine, with the help of a community in Brazil.

Music journalist Ashley Kahn talks to filmmaker Cameron Crowe and others about the changing nature of movie soundtracks. Original music is out, while compilations of popular hits are in.

A report by Save the Children singles out northern Uganda as a center of childhood conscription by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group there. Eighteen years of civil war in the region have displaced approximately 2 million people. David McGuffin reports from Gulu in northern Uganda.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Russia is receiving a big investment from the West. Despite the uncertainty as the nation heads into the presidential election season, the International Monetary Fund has agreed to lend Moscow more than ten-billion-dollars.

Commentator Jim Wallis says during election season, the poor do not exist---they don't have political clout or power---even though how we treat the poor is really the best test of how we define ourselves as a community. Wallis says both candidates ignore the poor and therefore ignore the growing economic divide between rich and poor in this nation...a divide that can only lead to other great societal ills.

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE START OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE SEASON THIS WEEKEND.

A Cadillac salesman and an oil-rig engineer are working to put the nation's first offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Mexico.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports on the violence in Northern Ireland that threatens the peace efforts for the province. This week is the beginning of the marching season when Protestants parade to celebrate military victories over Catholics 300 years ago. Earlier in the week, police had prevented one parade from going through a Catholic neighborhood. The Protestants rioted. When the police changed their decision, Catholics reacted last night with riots of their own.