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Liane talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the future of the US national missile defense system, in the aftermath of Friday night's test failure. Shuster says the latest failure may delay, but not ultimately derail, the deployment of the system.

Karen Schaefer of member station WCPN (Cleveland) reports from Sandusky, Ohio that this summer many seasonal jobs in the nation's resorts and tourist attractions are being filled, not by U.S. students, but by students from other countries.

Ten years ago, musician David Byrne followed a passion of his and started a world music label. The unassuming Luaka Bop Records was originally created to release a few Brazilian compilations, but it has grown to include music from Cuba, Africa, the Far East, and beyond. Host Jacki Lyden travels to the Luaka Bop offices in David Byrne's townhouse in Greenwich Village, and encourages him to dig out a few of the records that inspired him. (19:00) (Featured music appears on the CD's Tom Ze - Best of Tom Ze - Volume 4 [EMD/Luaka Bop Catalog # 49049]; Various Artists - Cuba Classics 3 - Diabla Al Infierno: New Directions in Cuban Music [EMD/Luaka Bop Catalog # 49028]; Various Artists - Cuba Classics 1 - Greatest Hits of Silvio Rodriguez: Canciones Urgentes [EMD/Luaka Bop Catalog # 49026]; Los Amigos Invisibiles - The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera [EMD/Luaka Bop Catalog # 49042].

Weekend Edition essayist Andy Borowitz has his own personal (and humorous) take on the potential social benefits from the Human Genome map.

NPR's Jeffrey Dvorkin recently attended a reunion of his Canadian summer camp group from 1961, and reports on what a difference 39 years makes.

In the second installment of our series on national missile defense, NPR's Mike Shuster examines some of the technical problems scientists would have to overcome, in order to make a missile defense system operational and effective.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on the NAACP convention in Baltimore, Maryland. Yesterday before a skeptical audience Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush said he recognized that the Republican Party has not always been seen as friendly toward blacks and promised to work to improve relations.

Host Bob Edwards talks to John Bogle a personal finance pioneer and founder of the Vanguard Group, about mutual funds. Bogle criticizes the management practices of mutual funds and provides advise for consumers who are interested in investing in these funds.

NPR's Ted Clark previews the Camp David Summit between Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which begins today, under the auspices of President Clinton. The objective is to resolve the seemingly intractable problems that stand in the way of a permanent peace agreement between the Israeli and Palestinian people.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Hirsch Goodman of the Jerusalem Report about Prime Minister Ehud Barak's political problems at home, in trying to negotiate with the Palestinians. Any transfer of land from Israel to the Palestinians would require the approval of Israel's Knesset, and Barak is in a relatively weak position with regard to that parliamentary body.