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It's not the world's most exciting spectator sport, but people around the world are finding fun in the depths, chasing pucks around the bottoms of swimming pools. NPR's Peter Breslow reports for Weekend Edition Saturday. (8:30)

NPR's Melissa Block talks with NPR's Jackie Northam reporting from Baghdad.

From member station WBUR, Jason Beaubien reports on a new engineering college in Boston where students will learn how to design all sorts of things -- including their own school.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on efforts to preserve the country's dwindling number of Civil War battlefields. Sites like Kennesaw Mountain -- the last obstacle between General Sherman and Atlanta -- are in danger from suburban sprawl.

Host Linda Wertheimer reports on a twin explosion we're experiencing in the United States. Dr. Barbara Luke of the University of Michigan's Division of Prenatal Epidemiology talks about some of the reasons.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on what some architects and urbanism experts envision as the future of the skyscraper in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks.

A new, comprehensive review of ocean policy says the greatest risk to U.S. coastal waters starts in the heart of the country: farm run-off. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports for Morning Edition.

Host Lynn Neary speaks with Weekend Edition Commentator Ellis Cose about his special report on black men in America.

NPR's Steve Inskeep in Kandahar reports a U.N. team has begun an effort to deal with the thousands of landmines and unexploded bombs that litter the countryside around the former Taliban stronghold.

The Stuckists are fed up with the contemporary British art scene. As NPR's Rick Karr reports from London, the group of painters says modern art in the UK is made by and for an elite clique.