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Liane Hansen speaks with Joel Chadabe, president of the Electronic Music Foundation about a new 3-cd set called OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts CD3670). Chadabe served as consultant for the package, which is one of the most complete surveys of electronic music ever released on disc.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with editors of three small-town papers about what issues their readers care about this election season. Though some towns have historically had high voter turnout, the editors say this year voters are much more motivated by local issues than by the chance to choose a president. We hear from Tom Lawrence of the Whitefish Pilot, in Whitefish, Montana; J.D. Davidson of the Times-Journal in Fort Payne, Alabama and Ross Connelly of the Hardwick Gazette, in Hardwick, Vermont.

There were no major science discoveries this week, but there WERE some good moments. NPR's David Kestenbaum has this week's wrap-up of news from the world of science.

The top-selling computer game this year isn't Pokemon or Nintendo -- it's a virtual family, the Sims. These computer-generated characters let you design and program their day-to-day activities, just like a real family. And just like a real family, they respond in unexpected ways. Susan Stone reports.

Yugoslav voters went to the polls for the first time to elect a president directly. But there is widespread mistrust of poll results, and fear that President Slobodan Milosevic could incite violence among his supporters. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with reporter Gillian Sandford from Belgrade.

Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman has captured the interest of many at these Summer Olympic Games: she's the favorite in the women's 400 meter race and she is also Australia's best-known aboriginal woman. That's made her - unexpectedly - a national symbol. NPR's Howard Berkes has a profile.

Reporter Alex van Oss remembers the days of his youth when he used to roam the hallways of the American History Museum, one of the museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution. The museum received a generous gift of $80 million this past week from California developer Kenneth E. Behring.

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads his poem The Deck. Komunyakaa and dozens of other poets performed and read and chatted and signed autographs at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Stanhope, New Jersey this past weekend. In the second half of the program we'll hear more about the festival and more from the poets themselves.

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.

Commentator Shane Hamman competes tomorrow in Sydney as a member of the U.S. men's Olympic weight lifting team. He says his road to power lifting began when he was a teenager, working for his dad's produce company.