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The presidential candidate said he'd planned to take the roadkill home and skin it, but got waylaid by a long day of falconry and steak dinner. The mystery of the bear cub made national news in 2014.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Gail Caldwell discusses her memoir, "Bright Precious Thing."

Marisa Peñaloza is a senior producer on NPR's National Desk. Peñaloza's productions are among the signature pieces heard on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as weekend shows. Her work has covered a wide array of topics — from breaking news to feature stories, as well as investigative reports.

Scott Simon is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

Baseball writer Tom Gage is being honored by the Hall of Fame for his long and illustrious career at The Detroit News. But he didn't leave his beat voluntarily. He recently lost his job at the paper.

This is the final day of campaigning for the Bosnian elections to be held the day after tomorrow. From Sarajevo, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the moderate opposition within the Bosnian Serb Republic. These are the Serbs whose power base is in northwestern Bosnia, far away from the nationalist stronghold in the eastern Bosnian town of Pale. Should these moderates win in this Saturday's elections, it is thought they they might be more willing to cooperate with implementing the joint instituions called for in the Dayton Peace Agreement.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that South Africa is already making the transition to the post-Nelson Mandela era. The 78-year-old Mandela will be president until he retires in 1999, but Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has taken over much of the day-to-day running of the government. Many are fearful of a future without Mandela, but the president is laying the groundwork for a smooth transition by giving Mbeki more responsibility now. In addition, Mbeki is not expected to change many of Mandela's policies.

Linda talks with supercomputer expert Justin Rattner of the Intel Corporation in Portland, Oregon, about the news that Intel has developed a computer that can perform more than a trillion computations per second. They discuss what this means for the computer industry and how having computers that can calculate with a large number of variables might change day-to-day living...for example, it is possible that computers could now help accurately predict the weather.

The government announced Tuesday that it plans to buy huge amounts of short-term debts from companies. The Fed will buy "commercial paper," a short-term financing mechanism that many companies use to finance their day-to-day operations, like meeting payroll or purchasing supplies.

In addition to carrying people belonging to the besieged Yazidi religious minority, the copter's passengers also included journalists from The New York Times.