February 3, 2001

Weekly Edition
Listen to the entire program (14.4 | 28.8)
Requires the free RealPlayer 2.0 or higher.

An index of this week's stories:

Pink Slip Parties (14.4 | 28.8) - Alex Cohen from member station KQED reports on the layoffs in the Internet industry and the evolution of the monthly Internet Pink Slip Parties in San Francisco. - 6:00

Amazon Layoffs (14.4 | 28.8) - NPR's Renee Montagne speaks with our Internet maven, Lisa Napoli, about the week's web news. - 3:38

Start Ups (14.4 | 28.8) - NPR's Chris Arnold reports on Internet entrepreneur Edward Jackson, co-founder of an on-line business called Skillsvillage.com. Jackson talks about his current success as well as the lessons from his previous start-up attempts over the last five years. - 8:30

Newspaper Lady (14.4 | 28.8) - A commentary by Elissa Ely about a patient in a psychiatric hospital who is devoted to her collection of newspaper. - 3:00

Bloody Sunday (14.4 | 28.8) - Brooke Gladstone, co-host of the NPR program On The Media, reports on the role of journalists in covering Bloody Sunday, in Northern Ireland, January 30, 1972. - 8:11

Email Request (14.4 | 28.8) - Listeners can send in requests to Weekly Edition at weed@npr.org. - :50

Native American (14.4 | 28.8) - As the circumstances and conditions of Native American life have evolved over the past half-century, Native American identity has struggled to keep pace. In the latest installment of the Changing Faces of America series, NPR's Cheryl Corley examines what it means to be an American Indian at the beginning of the new century. - 9:00

Soundscape (14.4 | 28.8) - Last October a reporting team from the NPR-National Geographic program Radio Expeditions traveled to the high mountains of western China, near the Tibetan border. They were documenting the conservation effort called the Yunnan Great Rivers Project. NPR engineer Bill McQuay roamed the region for two weeks with his microphone. He traveled by car, horseback and on foot, through 12,000-foot passes and forests of giant rhododendron. He met villagers herding yak and cattle, Buddhist pilgrims offering prayers to mountain gods, and musicians performing on traditional instruments. Bill brought back sounds of a land that some call Shangri-La. - 4:07

Some stories do not link to audio files because of Internet rights issues.

Copyright© National Public Radio, 2000, all rights reserved.