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Ten years after fire and violence rocked Los Angeles, Weekend Edition looks back on what happened and how the city has tried to recover. Scott Simon opens the hour from the corner of Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles. A montage follows as Angelinos describe the events of ten years ago in their own words. Scott then explores the economic realities of south Los Angeles.

Some automated phone systems have begun using computer voices with colloquial traits and an improved capacity to interact with callers. But designers can't agree whether computers should be efficient, robotic machines or pretend to have personality. For All Things Considered, NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

In 1826, Frenchman Nicephore Niepce took what's considered to be the world's oldest photograph. Now that picture has been sent for analysis to the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. Jacki talks to Dusan Stulik, a senior scientist at the Getty, about the image and its creator.

Actor, writer, comedian Andy Richter. For seven years he was Conan O'Brien's sidekick on Late Night. Now he has his own sitcom on FOX, Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Richter could be seen in the movies, Scary Movie 2, Dr. T & The Women, Big Trouble and Run, Ronnie, Run.

By posing math problems to Manhattan lunchtime crowds, math teacher George Nobl hopes to convert a few of America's many "math-aphobics." On Morning Edition, NPR's Madeleine Brand tackles one of the problems -- "If cashews cost one price and peanuts another, how much would a mixture cost?" NPR Online has Nobl's answer.

Grits have sustained families for four centuries, but the basic Southern dish continues to evolve. On Morning Edition, NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports on grits as part of the Present at the Creation series on American cultural icons.

A number of groups were expecting more from the meeting between American Bishops and the pope -- including the victims of the alleged sexual abuse. NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with some victims about what they hoped the conference would produce.

Scott Simon plays a montage of mostly hip-hop music that people listened to in south Los Angeles ten years ago.

In 1856, dozens of Mormon pioneers died on a desolate, snowbound pass in Wyoming during their exodus to Utah. Now the church wants to buy the land from the federal government, saying it's a sacred site. But critics say the proposed sale would set a bad precedent. NPR's Howard Berkes reports for Morning Edition. (Please note this segment was corrected on air on May 22, 2002: "In an early feed of our story on Martin's Cove, Wyoming, last week, we failed to give the full name of the church that wants to purchase the historic site. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.")

Caucasians are no longer a majority in California or Los Angeles. Scott Simon talks with a group of white Angelinos about their perceptions of what happened 10 years ago. He then visits a group of journalism students and their teacher at Phineas Banning High School in the Wilmington neighborhood of south Los Angeles. The hour concludes with an essay by Scott Simon.