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Weekend All Things Considered begins a new monthly feature. It's called Along For The Ride. Each month, we invite a creative person to act as a guest reporter and share with us a special point of interest to him or her. Today, writer Amy Wilensky, takes us to the cheese department at Fairway, a New York City grocery, where cheese guru Steven Jenkins has a passion, if not an obsession for cheese!

Amita Sharma, of member station KPBS in San Diego, reports that a federal judge has found an important part of California's Proposition 21 to be unconstitutional. The 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that only judges, not prosecutors, have the authority to try juveniles in an adult court. The decision stemmed from a case last summer, in which eight boys beat and robbed a group of Latino migrant workers.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports that an Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, Ltd., has offered to sell the humanitarian group Doctors without Borders anti-AIDS drugs at a fraction of market price. Cipla says it will provide a three-drug therapy for a cost of $350 per patient per year. In the United States this three-drug cocktail costs more than ten thousand dollars a year, a price that's completely out of reach for patients in the developing world.

The American Bar Association passes a resolution urging the Bush administration to allow counsel and other legal protections for U.S. citizens jailed as enemy combatants. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

James Murray reports from Toronto on the controversy in Canada over a government announcement that the name of Mount Logan, the highest peak in Canada, would be changed to Mount Trudeau. The change was proposed in honor of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who died last month. Trudeau was a very popular prime minister, but a lot of Canadians are protesting the change. They say it slights Sir William Logan, the famous geologist and explorer for whom the mountain originally was named.

He has just returned from several weeks in Afghanistan. His book, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, is now out in paperback. He's also the author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Rashid is a correspondent for The Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph, reporting on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

The U.S. Army has begun training Iraqi exiles in interpreting and "liaison" skills at the Taszar base in Hungary, a new NATO member. Hungary -- part of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's "new Europe" -- is anxious to show it is a staunch U.S. ally. But not all Hungarians relish the idea of thousands of American soldiers training exile Iraqis on their soil. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Nearly a year after 5-year-old foster child Rilya Wilson disappears in Florida, the new chief of the state's Department of Children and Families changes the department's approach to handling children at risk. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) says Democrats may block a vote on Miguel Estrada's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The threatened filibuster would be the first mounted against a circuit court nominee. NPR's David Welna reports.

While much of the world watched the case in the Florida State Supreme Court today, another trial was coming to a conclusion not far away in downtown Tallahassee. In the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, lawyers argued over the fate of about 10-thousand absentee ballots cast in Martin County. Most of them were cast for George W. Bush. The judge in the case promised a ruling tomorrow. NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Tallahassee.