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Listener Charley Parker plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

One of the nation's biggest drugstore chains is merging with a big manager of drug-benefit plans. If completed, the combination of CVS and Caremark would control more than a billion prescriptions every year.

In Utqiagvik, Alaska, workers had to think of different ways to removeg a 450-pound bearded seal off an airport runway.

Space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on schedule, carrying teacher and astrounaut Barbara Morgan and her crewmates into orbit. Morgan has waited more than 20 years to carry out the dream of her friend and fellow teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died aboard the Challenger in 1986.

It may not be possible to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before a Senate committee. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it will be months before Iraqi army units are ready to operate on their own.

NPR's Kelsey Snell plays the puzzle with winner Jacob Kopas from New York, New York with puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

The government's latest figures on the economy show that the gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006, a stronger showing than many analysts had expected.

Listener Jo Ann Hauger plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Listener Daniel Rochberg of Washington, D.C., plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor's new CD is Begin to Hope. The Russian emigre, who came to the United States when she was 9, says her songs aren't about herself and likens writing songs to writing fiction.