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David D'Arcy reports on Other Pictures, a new exhibition of amateur black and white pictures on exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Linda DiVall, a Republican pollster, about issues that will influence the women's vote this year. DiVall is the founder of American Viewpoint, and part of the polling team for Women's Voices 2000. DiVall talks about the research on women voters for The Center for Policy Alternatives and Lifetime Television. A series of focus groups show that women are worried about their economic future, are concerned about education and health issues, and feel pressed for time. (4:45) For more information on American Viewpoint, see www.amview.com

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports Mississippi has a new take on the reality TV craze: It's a Website where the world can watch four young smokers living for a week in an apartment trying to quit. The state is offering a cash prize to each member of the group who makes it through the week without lighting up. And the web audience gets to vote on activities that will make it harder or easier for them.

Carolyn Johnson of Nebraska Public Radio reports on an effort in the state to built one of the world's largest networks of cosmic ray detectors. A physics professor is putting the detectors on the roofs of all 314 Nebraska high schools to help students get hands on science experience.

Commentator Rebecca Flowers says all this diversity at the GOP convention made her wonder about the dream republican ticket---Bush and Puff Daddy. The gangsta rapper is black, musical and rich -- all the things the GOP seems interested in this week. They probably share similar views on gun control---and Puff Daddy's girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez is Hispanic.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the defeat of former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Yesterday Israel's parliament selected Moshe Katsav to become the next president. The victory of Iranian-born Katsav of the opposition Likud Party puts a humiliating end to Peres' half-century political career.

Commentator Kevin Phillips says this is the sixth time Philadelphia has hosted the Republicans since 1856. The city has been good to GOP incumbents, but three times an untested candidate has won the nomination, and all three lost in November.

Jackie Northam of Chicago Public Radio reports one of Chicago's oldest and most influential radio stations has gone off the air today. Once the home of such radio shows as "Amos and Andy" and "Fibber McGee and Molly," WMAQ will cease transmissions, and its frequency will now be used by an all sports station.

Co-Host Madeleine Brand talks to some of the delegates who bring diversity to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. They include Asian-American delegate Joseph Kung from California, black delegate James Evans from Utah, and white delegates Blair Thorsen and June Hartley from North Dakota and Oregon, respectively.

JP Manoux (mah-NOO) is a professional commercial actor. At least he was until May 1st, that's when the Screen Actors Guild went on strike. It's a strike that continues with no end in sight. He offers his musings on the business of commercial acting and what the strike means to him and for his craft.

Just hours before his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention, George W. Bush attended a luncheon honoring his wife Laura. The program was sponsored by the National Federation of Republican Women, a group that says the Texas governor can end the Democrat's two-decade dominance among women. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Robert Siegel is at the Republican convention in Philadelphia, where he talks with Marvin Olasky, an occasional informal advisor to George W. Bush. He also coined the phrase Compassionate Conservatism, a phrase that is also the title of Olasky's new book. Olasky is a University of Texas journalism professor, and also senior fellow of the Acton Institute for the study of Religion and Liberty. He talks with Robert about how Bush's Christianity could infuse his presidency and his policies.

Linda reads letters from All Things Considered listeners. (3:15) {STATIONS NOTE:} To contact All Things Considered, write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.

A paper in today's Science magazine reports the discovery of a new material that may be able to with stand irradiation for a thousand years. At present, nuclear waste is stashed away in containers that will start to break down after only a 100 years. Scientists are in a race against time to discover ways of building nuclear trashcans that can survive for much longer. And this new material could - at least in theory - be part of the answer. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Fires continue to rage across the west - the nation's worst fire season in more than ten years. This morning Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck met with fire strategists at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. He is now touring fire lines and assessing the situation. From KBSX in Boise, Sadi Babits reports.

Host Alex Chadwick talks with Mario Martinez, county commissioner of Hale County, Texas, where the duties of local government were recently limited by the county attorney.

Linda speaks with Seth Shostak, an astronomer at SETI (Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, funding for a new radio telescope to be devoted to listening for intelligent life in other parts of the universe. The telescope will be located near the Mount Lassen National Park in Northern California, and Shostak says it will improve the chances of hearing a signal from intelligent life by a thousand fold.

Steven Dudley reports from Bogota that Colombia's President Andres Pastrana has ordered an investigation of the military's involvement in an attack that resulted in the deaths of six schoolchildren. It took place 40-miles from Medellin. The children, aged 6-to-12, were on a school hike when gunfire erupted. The regional army commander initially said the children had been caught in crossfire between military forces and guerrillas. But survivors said that there were no guerrillas in the area and the children were pinned down for 45 minutes by military fire. The killings occurred just two months after the U-S Congress approved one-point-three billion dollars of mostly military aid to help Colombia fight the drug trade and guerrilla movements.

The Linux computer operating system has moved from the computer world's fringe to the heart of corporate America. The free, decentralized system is being featured by big computer makers such as Dell and IBM. And it's running more and more high-end computer servers. But Linux is still hard to use and average computer users are unlikely to abandon Microsoft's Windows anytime soon. NPR's Chris Arnold reports from the Linux Expo in San Jose.

Noah talks to Travis Bell, the developer of high tech sled runners for the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team, about the theft of some bobsled runners from his storage locker. Four sets of the runners were found behind an abandoned service station, but seven sets are still missing.

Commentator Judy Muller says there are similarities between Joseph Lieberman, the democrats' vice-presidential candidate, and his predecessor 16 years ago, Geraldine Ferraro. She says Lieberman will be scrutinized as a symbol of American Jews, just as Ferraro was seen as a symbol of American women.

Co-Host Renee Montagne reports on the issue of family values and blues. Montagne talks with guitarist John Cephas, about the lascivious nature of blues music. Party leaders blocked a planned fund-rasier at the Playboy Mansion this week; instead, the Hispanic Unity event was moved to B.B. King's Blues Club in Universal City. Cephas says many blues songs don't seem to go well with the concept of "family values."

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that Russia today asked Britain and Norway for help in rescuing the crew of the submarine Kursk, which has been stranded for days at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Britain has airlifted a mini-sub to Norway, to be sent on to the crash site. The request for foreign help followed repeated, unsuccessful attempts by the Russians to dock a diving bell to the sub, to evacuate the more than 100 men on board.

Linda went on the floor of the Democratic National Convention last night, to talk to delegates about what they want to hear tonight from vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman. The delegates were hot to hear about ISSUES, including education, prescription drugs, social security -- and what he and Al Gore propose to do to make these things better for Americans.

Before coming to Los Angeles, Linda visited with several women in Ohio, outside Cleveland, to talk with them about the Democrats, and what they wanted to hear from the Democratic convention secure their votes for Gore and Lieberman. Today, Linda checks back with Linda Smith, from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She is a stay-at-home mom with two kids. So far, she says, she hasn't heard enough about gun control and the issue of violence. Smith WAS impressed with Bill Bradley's speech. It made her feel good about the party, and afterwards she found herself nodding her head.