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Host Lisa Simeone talks to Terry Ryan about her new book The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less. Terry's mother Evelyn entered hundreds of contests during the advertising heyday of the 1950s and 60s. The contests usually required a short poem praising a product, and sometimes the prizes were quite substantial. Ryan won thousands of dollars and hundreds of prizes during her long "career" as a jingle writer.

NPR's Technology Correspondent Larry Abramson reports on robots from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on a 1946 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Mexico. Families traveled south from the U.S. to help stop the epidemic. Now in their 70's and 80's, they still get together each year to remember the work that took them to some of the most remote places in Mexico.

Noah talks with Tom DeBaggio, his wife Joyce and his son Francesco, about the progression of Tom's early onset of Alzheimer's. We visited him for the first time three months ago, at his family herb farm in Chantilly, Va. DeBaggio says there is a difference in his condition from the last time we spoke. The disease is progressing more quickly than he had hoped it would.

NPR's Howard Berkes explores the rush to harness energy from wind during a visit to the town of McCamey, the Wind Energy Capital of Texas, where hundreds of wind turbines are going up on every available mesa.

As the global economy knits countries closer together, it becomes easier for diseases to spread through states, over borders and across oceans doing serious damage to vulnerable populations. American RadioWorks and NPR News present a series on this lethal side effect of globalization.

Jason Bezis, a law student at the University of California at Berkeley, has always harbored a special appreciation for our first president. He wants the nation to refer to our annual Februrary federal holiday by its given name: Washington's Birthday.

Commentator Brad Klein tells the story of a treetop mimic in New York City's Central Park. For several years, careful birdwatchers noticed that they heard the Black-Throated Green Warbler weeks before they saw it. This puzzled them -- until someone noticed that the Warbler's song was alternating with that of the White-Throated Sparrow.

Host Bob Edwards highlights a new exhibit at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibit offers a window into a unique relationship that developed through correspondence. Some Japanese American children forced into internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor exchanged many letters with a San Diego librarian named Clara Breed.

25-year-old Max Moran is a former foster child and outspoken advocate for foster care reform in New York City. Weekend All Things Considered first met Max two years ago; he's now poised to graduate from Hunter College in New York with a Master's degree in social work.