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NPR's Don Gonyea plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and listener Cat Dickey of New Orleans.

Warren Buffett, billionaire investor and founder of Berkshire Hathaway, has announced he is donating much of his fortune to charity. Over time, most of Buffett's $44 billion in stock holdings will be given to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Though it's early in the college football season, several match-ups have post-season implications. Also, there have been two notable suspensions: a back-up punter who stabbed his starting rival in the leg -- and the entire Stanford marching band.

The gigantic new Airbus A380 passenger jet debuts in the United States this week, in a promotional tour that belies the fact that U.S. airlines have not rushed to order the plane. The super-jumbo jet has double-deck seating for 555 travelers, but few U.S. orders.

Baghdad's South Dora district is a mixed Sunni-Shiite area torn by sectarian violence. In the six months that U.S. troops from Fort Lewis, Wash., have been based there, they have cut the murder rate in half. But they say they've had little help from the Iraqi government or the U.S. State Department.

A panel of experts debates the notion that more domestic surveillance in the United States is better than the risk of another terrorist attack like the one on Sept. 11, 2001. Opponents of government snooping say that diminishing civil liberties plays right into the hands of terrorists.

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, died Wednesday, at a Cleveland hospital from a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm. A five-term Democrat from Ohio, Tubbs Jones, was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress.

German photographer Sascha Fonseca set out bait-free camera traps three years ago to capture the ever-elusive snow leopard in the Indian Himalayas.

Carol Baldauf plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

The measure, which is set to go into effect in May, is an attempt to appease residents in the neighborhood, which attracts millions of tourists each year.