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NPR's Joshua Levs reports on the older Olympian. The average age of an athlete on this year's U.S. team is around 28, and several high-profile competitors are in their mid to late 30's. Experts say changes in sports science, including training and nutrition, are helping to push back what scientists have long considered the age of peak performance.

Commentator Frank Deford weighs in with his feelings on prayer at high school football games.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Robert Breunig, Executive Director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin about the impact of the on-going drought in Central Texas

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on the protest over the Labor Day weekend, in which dairy farmers around the country dumped more than two million gallons of milk to protest low prices. Dairy farmers are asking the government to raise the federal price support for raw milk because, they say, they're losing money, despite relatively high retail prices.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Paul Eisenstein about the high tech options available on this year's new car models. Eisenstein is publisher of The Car Connection dot com.

Host Bob Edwards talks with James Stewart, about the federal case against a former doctor who goes on trial today on charges of murdering three patients at a veterans hospital in New York State in 1993. The defendant, Michael Swango, is the subject of Stewart's book, Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder. (3:40) Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder is published by Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 06848

Commentator Meghan Daum talks about Nebraska farmers in drag.

Commentator Lenore Skenazy, who lives in New York City has a few words about the traffic gridlock caused by the United Nations Millennium Summit.

Anne Garrels talks with All Things Considered's Noah Adams about the U.N. Millennium Summit, which is being called the largest gathering of world leaders in history. President Clinton addressed the summit today, delivering an impassioned appeal for peace in the Middle East. The president was holding separate meetings later with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, hoping to revive prospects for a final peace agreement.

We hear an excerpt of a speech yesterday in Allentown, Pennsylvania, by Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, in which he outlined his plan for Medicare.