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Almost 60 years ago, Charles E. Williams opened a small store specializing in high-quality cookware, with the hopes of making French cooking more accessible to Americans. Today, Williams-Sonoma is an international name. He died Saturday at the age of 100.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that for the first time scientists have identified a gene that is involved in a particular kind of thinking. In tomorrow's issue of the journal Cell, researchers report that they identified a gene that appears to play a role in the ability to envision things in three dimensions.

Even the compilers of a new funk collection don't fully know who William Onyeabor is.

Liane Hansen speaks with singer, songwriter and musician ictoria Williams about her new album, "Loose". (Matador/Atlantic Records)

Scott talks with Lucinda Williams about her new CD, Essence (Lost Highway, 088 170 197-2). This is Ms. Williams' sixth major label recording. Her last release, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Folk Album.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about the match between the Williams sisters and the happenings at this year's Wimbledon Tournament.

DONNA WILLIAMS. Her first book "Nobody Nowhere" offered a journey through the mysterious condition of autism; it was an international bestseller. Once her case was properly diagnosed, Williams began therapy which took her out of the "world under glass" and into the real world of speech and emotion. This treatment is the subject of her new book "Somebody, Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism" (Times Books).