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NPR's Rob Gifford takes a visit to a summer camp for overweight children in Shanghai China. The opening of American fast-food restaurants, and only children who are spoiled with sugary treats, have resulted in an explosion of obese children.

Noah and Ariel Dorfman, a professor at Duke University discuss the history of the Chilean ship, the B.E. Esmeralda. The ship is part of the Tall Ship celebration, and is visiting New London, Connecticut today. Of all the Tall Ships, this one is the most controversial, because it had been used to hold and torture political prisoners.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on George W. Bush's campaign stops in Wisconsin and Iowa yesterday. While visiting schools and veterans, the Texas governor has been speaking to voters about education and military spending.

We visit The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000 in Stanhope, New Jersey. Host Jacki Lyden talks with poets Mark Doty, Anne Waldman, and Yusef Komunyakaa -- and we hear their poetry. Jacki also talks with Jim Haba, the director of the festival.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on George W. Bush's campaign stop at an Ohio High School last night. The Republican presidential candidate used the visit to give more details about his tax cut and foreign policy, and poked fun at his own difficulties at public speaking.

Harriet Baskas visits the Barber Museum in Canal Winchester, Ohio, which is home to the Barbering Hall of Fame. On display are numerous barber chairs, barber shop polls, razors, clippers, and other items associated with the barbering arts.

A new study shows the number of women and girls has surpassed the number of men and boys using the Internet. We hear some female students at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California talk about the sites they like to visit.

NPR's Madeline Brand reports that Vice President Al Gore took his presidential campaign into the heart of Texas, visiting San Antonio, and criticizing Governor George W. Bush's tax breaks for oil companies.

NPR's David Molpus visits a community near Fayetteville, North Carolina, a place where some 1,000 retired Green Berets live. Molpus says these men, who gained fame during the Vietnam war, are still trying to cope with the war and its aftermath.

France's President Jacques Chirac on a state visit to Washington addressed a joint session of Congress and got his loudest applause when he spoke of his decision just this week to cease his nation's nuclear testing. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

President Clinton went to New Hampshire today for a two-day visit and some campaigning despite the fact he is unchallenged in the Democratic Primaries. He spoke this afternoon to parents, teachers and students at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord about education and economic growth. We hear excerpts of that speech.

Commentator Bailey White comments on odd bathroom practices -- like the little basket of dried flower petals put on the toilet, or the toilet paper folded into a point-- all designed to put us at ease in a dark, primordial room. She also notes the modern technologies in progressive airport bathrooms she has visited.

While using chemicals to get rid of bugs is a multi-million dollar business, Neary visits with a scientist who studies insect-produced chemicals that could be useful to us.

director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom in Washington, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first state visit to Washington...

- Reporter Alex Van Oss reports that the people of Finland consider Santa Claus one of their own...and have a workshop near the Arctic Circle to prove it. Van Oss visits the Finnish Embassy Christmas party where diplomats give their government's official policy on the origins of Santa.

seem to be closer to reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron. The development came amid controversy over French President Chirac's visit to Israel yesterday.

there... noticeable in rebuilding, resettlement, and cross-border visits for Christmas.

NPR's David Welna reports on the visit by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to Capitol Hill to argue for swift action on President Bush's tax cut. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, O'Neill's appearance is the opening salvo for the administration's key economic initiative.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports from Saint Louis, Mo., where she is accompanying President Bush as he tries to make the case for his education and tax cut proposals. Mr. Bush also visited Ohio today.

Ted Clark reports on Colombian President Andres Pastrana's visit to the White House today. He and President Bush talked about drugs, Colombia's civil war and expanded trade which could improve the country's economy and ease the conditions which lead to the drug problem and the war.

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.

Lisa visits with three teenagers in Vienna, Virginia, to learn about the ingenious uses to which they're putting Napster, the on-line music-swapping service. As they tell it, Napster is about more than just a free ride.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House on today's visit by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The German leader told reporters he and President Bush agree on "practically everything," except on the U.S. decision to reject the 1997 Kyoto treaty on global warming.

This is, of course, the last weekend before school starts, and for many kids, their last few days at the swimming pool. Brooke visits a local pool in Washington D.C. to canvass groups of young people about how they feel about going back to school.

Linda talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's visit today to California, which is holding its primary on Tuesday, along with Nevada and Washington. The big issues in California include the economy and how to preserve defense industry jobs.