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In the final installment of our Changing Face of America series on the changing face of sports and society, NPR's Uri Berliner travels to Orange County, California, to see how girls fast-pitch softball has changed. The game has become big business, with highly paid pitching and hitting instructors, and super elite travel teams that all but assure scholarships to major universities. But gone too are the days when softball was just a game, and many girls are feeling the pressure to succeed in the sport on and off the field.

Bolivia has the highest infant mortality in South America, far worse than its neighbors. NPR's Joe Palca explores the reasons for this depressing statistic, and also looks into what both governmental and non-governmental organizations are doing to address the problem.

Dizzy Gillespie's legendary 1942 composition fueled a jazz revolution called bebop.

Weekend Edition Sunday presents the annual airing of John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story. The tale of a hitchhiking boy with an orange was originally broadcast in 1974 on the NPR program Voices in the Wind, and since 1994 it's been a tradition to broadcast it on our program.

While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can be a "continuous renewable power source" during the day and at night.

Liane Hansen speaks with pianist Rachel Z, who performs the music of Wayne Shorter with her trio in NPR's Studio 4A. Her new cd, On the Milky Way Express is on Tone Center Records. (17:00)Find out more at Rachel Z's website: www.rachelz.com

NPR's Richard Harris reports from Antarctica, where a team of biologists studies the few life forms tenacious enough to exist in such a harsh climate.

NPR's Joe Palca sent us an audio postcard from Carnaval in Bolivia.

Scott talks with playwright Alan Bennett about his first novel, The Clothes they Stood Up In, which is about how a burglary changes the life of a proper British couple. (12:00).

NPR's Steve Drummond reports from the Mississippi Delta on "Teach for America." For more than a decade the program has been sending recent college graduates into poverty-stricken areas to teach for two years.