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Noah talks with Stephanie Hobbs, spokeswoman for Verizon Communications, about new telephone directories allowing customers to offer more information about themselves than just a name and address. Customers will now have the option of listing e-mail and Web page addresses too.

It's the first Saturday of the month and novelist Paul Auster brings you the National Story Project. For more information on the National Story Project and to read this month's stories please visit the National Story Project area on NPR's web site.

In the second of a three-part series on the Islam and the Internet, Weekend All Things Considered reporter/producer Davar Ardalan looks at how the Web provides new avenues for education and business to women often confined to traditional religious roles. (9:32)

NPR's Rick Karr reports that the internet is at the center of the campaign against the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General. The question is how effective are e-mail and activist web sites at attracting and engaging citizens and what impact do the efforts have on Capitol Hill?

Commentator David Weinberger says the technology we use has an effect on how we speak. He says the World Wide Web is likely to change the metaphors we use. For instance, will we have a "broken link" when our memory lapses?

Lisa talks with Senior Editor Locke Peterseim of Britannica.com, the Web site for the Encyclopedia Britannica. Peterseim writes the Annotated Dennis Miller, which tries to explain all of the strange and curious observations of the comedian's commentaries during ABC-TV's Monday Night Football broadcasts.

As the war moves into Baghdad, anxiety grows among the parents of those on the front lines -- as does their hunger for information. Because legal and other constraints often prevent the parents of U.S. Marines from getting information from the military, they're turning to an unofficial Web site called MarineMoms.us. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

Many patients like the convenience of being able to quickly consult a doctor by text or phone or webcam instead of heading to an urgent care clinic. But the cost of consultations can add up.

The two oilfield-services companies faced pressure from U.S. and European regulators concerned that a merger would stifle competition. The Justice Department filed suit in April to stop the deal.

Verizon Communications says it will buy the online pioneer AOL for about $4.4 billion. The transaction will be completed this summer, and AOL will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon.