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Republican leaders promise to make oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a key part of the national energy policy debate next year. Conservationists promise to fight the proposal -- and some wish they could call on Mardy Murie for help. NPR's Howard Berkes profiles one of the nation's greatest champions of wild areas, now 100 years old. View a photo galley and video of highlights from Murie's life.

Now the host of The Tonight Show, Leno talks about his struggling years as a stand-up comic (with other comics like Robin Williams, Andy Kaufman, and Steve Martin). He also talks about taking over The Tonight Show. He is author of the book Leading with my Chin. Leno appears in Comedian, the Jerry Seinfeld documentary in theaters now. (REBROADCAST from 10/21/96)

The state of Oregon and the AARP are trying to make it easier for patients to obtain the proper prescriptions at the best prices. The state and the senior citizen group are providing an online comparison of four different types of drugs: for pain, blood pressure, cholesterol and arthritis. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.

It's a Thanksgiving Day tradition on All Things Considered for commentator Bailey White to read an original short story. With the author's permission, npr.org reprints this year's story, "Almost Gone."

Join NPR's Ketzel Levine and her neighbors Mar Goman and Virginia Lindley for a Talking Plants foray into the alleys of North Portland, Ore., in search of festive urban flora. They make wreaths from plants -- even weeds -- they find along the way, from smokebrush and clematis to cinnamon fir.

A few years ago, little pocket monsters -- Pokemon -- arrived from Japan and quickly became one of the most valuable animated properties in history. Now, there's a new monster on the block. As NPR's Susan Stone reports, one of Japan's most popular comic books is poised to take American teens by storm.

In the early 1940s when the Army Air Force faced a shortage of pilots, it launched an experimental program to train new ones — the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

Host Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater, Weekend Edition ambassador to the world of children's literature, discuss and read from two books for children, Another Perfect Day by Ross MacDonald and Yellow Umbrella by Jae-Soo Liu. Yellow Umbrella comes with a music CD composed Dong Il Sheen to play while reading the book.

Lynn Neary talks with Lauren Greenfield, author and photographer of Girl Culture. Ms. Greenfield's work is regularly published in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Stern and Geo, and is featured in several museums.

Morning Edition's final segment of a five-part original radio drama, I'd Rather Eat Pants.