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The city of Minneapolis intends to erect a bronze statue to honor Mary Richards, the fictional heroine of the Mary Tyler Moore show. It will be done in conjunction with the cable television network TV LAND. Writer Peter Ritter is inspired by the notion of public art for the masses. He has a few suggestions of his own.

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are two of the original members of the band Aerosmith. Next week the band will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports that the Chinese government today struck back at the United States, calling it hypocritical on human rights. China went on the offensive after the U.S. released a State Department report yesterday, saying that China's human rights record has greatly deteriorated over the past year. Chinese officials discussed the issue during a news conference as U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson was in Beijing. The Chinese government didn't like her remarks either, saying she was ignorant of China's situation. She is pressing China to abolish its "re-education through labor" policy, under which minor offenders can be locked up for several years, without any judicial process.

Brakenhielm is managing director of Strix Television and the woman behind Expedition Robinson. Its now in its fifth season.

Parsons invented the reality format show Survive, but couldnt get any interest for it in Britian. In 1996 Strix Television in Sweden bought the format rights for Survive, and went on to produce Expedition Robinson. It has become the most successful and controversial TV series in Scandinavia.

Liane speaks with newspaper editors from around the country about how President Bush's first week in office is playing outside the Beltway. Included in the discussion are Bert Robinson, City Editor with the San Jose Mercury News; Kate Nelson, Columnist and Editorial Board member with the Albuquerque Tribune; and Candace Page, Political Reporter with the Burlington Free Press.

It took the Sugarhill Gang, and a song called "Rapper's Delight," to get the developing hip-hop art form on the radio.

A Preview of tomorrow's Holloween visit to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Host Renee Montagne takes the tour with owner Tyler Cassidy. Today, they stop by the crypt of Rudolph Valentino, the wildly popular star of silent movies.

He gained recognition and criticalacclaim for his first book on baseball history Baseballs Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. Now in his newly released sequel Past Time: Baseball as History (Oxford University Press), he examines the relationship between baseball and American society over thepast 150 years. He gives his thoughts on baseball history and this years World Series. He is a Professor of History at San Francisco State University.

NPR's Joanne Silberner watched the struggles of Tyler Handerson and his family as they waited for the restart of an experimental medical study. Tyler has a cancer that affects nerve cells and the brain. The study aims to use a new kind of "gene therapy" to cure the cancer. But the trial was one of many put on hold last year after the death of a Pennsylvania teenager.