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Commentator Frank Deford says what women athletes choose to...or not to wear is fine with him.

Commentator Paul Raeburn says Detroit should stop worrying about making environmentally friendly automobiles and start making cars with fins.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on a deeper meaning behind Guernica, the Basque town that was nearly destroyed during the Spanish civil war.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Michael Tsao, owner of the Kahiki Tiki Bar in Columbus, Ohio about the closing of the Tiki bar, which is on the National Historic Registry.

Mitch Teich from member station KNAU in Flagstaff, Arizona, reports on how small communities in the desert are dealing with water issues. In Cedar Valley, Arizona residents don't have their own wells...they share a well. Each year, a different family takes over the maintenance and operation of the well, and an electronic sensor alerts them when the water level drops too low.

Commentator Amy Dickinson heads for her hometown in New York state every summer. She sent us this audio postcard about this year's vacation -- and how her quiet getaway has changed.

We hear a portion of Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's speech today, accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of squandering opportunity for trade with Latin America.

Campaigning has posed a new challenge this week for Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush, who has seen his pre-eminent position in the polls slip for the first time since March. Bush has also struggled to keep his focus on the issues he believes will carry him to victory, including his tax cut plan. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Still enjoying the lift provided by his speech at the Democratic national Convention, Vice President Al Gore campaigned through the Midwest this week in an open-collared shirt and an upbeat mood. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports that Gore is borrowing heavily from his father's populist campaign style and, for the moment at least, it seems to be working.

NPR News Correspondent Richard Gonzales reports on a ruling by Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that persecution because of sexual preference must be considered a legitimate reason for the INS to grant an immigrant political asylum.

John Burnett reports on the debate over liberalizing US immigration policy along the Mexico border to allow guest worker visas.

Russia has released of a Hungarian World War Two prisoner after 53 years. Andras Tamas had been diagnosed as psychotic by his captors, and ended up in a Russian psychiatric hospital. Two weeks ago, the head of the Hungarian National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology brought Tamas home to Hungary. Robert talks with Giles Whittell, the Moscow Bureau Chief for The Times of London, about his visit with Tamas in Budapest.

Robert Siegel speaks with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the WBNA. The professional women's basketball league is in the midst of it's championship final series. The Houston Comets may win the title for the fourth straight year after defeating the New York Liberty last night to take the first game in the best of three series. This is the league's fourth year and while its growth may have reached a plateau, there's still a lot of enthusiasm for the game.

Mike Shuster reports on President Clinton's trip to Africa, which began today in Nigeria. Clinton hopes to promote democracy on the continent through Nigeria's example, and to encourage the country's leadership in regional peacekeeping.

Mark Roberts reports on questions about the safety of the nation's pipeline system in the wake of last week's explosion in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Eleven campers were killed when a natural gas pipeline ruptured near their campsite.

Host Jacki Lyden talks to travel writer Chris Elliott about airlines' efforts to crack down on fliers who buy tickets for "hidden cities." Some travelers are finding it cheaper to buy tickets for longer flights, and then get off in a connecting city, or to pay a lower round-trip fare for a one-way flight. Airlines say that's costing them money.

The San Francisco Giants' most popular team members aren't seeing much action this summer. When the team inaugurated a new ballpark, it also introduced a group of canine helpers, trained to retrieve home-runs hit into nearby San Francisco Bay. So far, the dogs are still waiting to make a splash. Scott Shaefer reports from member station KQED.

On the 37th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, Nancy Marshall reports on today's "Redeem the Dream" march in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators are demanding an end to racial profiling and police brutality.

Commentator David Weinberger says making predictions is a waste of time, especially when it comes to trying to guess the future of technology.

Host Renee Montagne talks to commentator John Feinstein about Tiger Woods' victory yesterday in the PGA Championship.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on Air France's decision to ban smoking on all its flights. The company banned cigarettes on its domestic and European flights a decade ago.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the latest development in the last minute attempt to rescue the sailors, trapped in the Russian submarine that sank to the bottom of the Arctic Circle off the Barents Sea more than a week ago.

A new reality show of sorts has come to the Internet. It's called Reality Run. The idea is to set someone loose on the streets of a major city wired with a microphone and very little money. It is then up to people listening to that live microphone over the 'net to pick up hints about where the person is. The first person who finds the man or woman with the mic wins $10,000. The first "Reality Run" was played in Berlin and will come to the United States soon. Noah talks with "Roger." He was on the run in Berlin until a young woman found him in a Berlin library yesterday. (5:00) The Internet address is http://realityrun.com/

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a new technique to recover information from magnetic tapes and disks. Noah talks with David Pappas, who heads that team, about the possibility that this technique could be applied to blank portions of the Nixon White House tapes, analyzed during the Watergate scandal. Recovering voices, he says, would be a long shot. But it might be possible to tell whether the tapes had been erased.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that Russian president Vladimir Putin finally flew to the Northern Fleet's base near Murmansk -- ten days after the submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea. With the rescue attempt called off, talk has now turned to bringing up the bodies of the 118 men on board.