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NPR's Mark Roberts reports from Denver on the campaign of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. Nader is hoping to get 5 percent of the vote this year in order to get federal campaign funds to help his new party compete in future elections.

Robert talks to Aimee Dorr, Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA about the FTC report on the marketing of violent entertainment to minors.

Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr wonders if American intelligence didn't learn of former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee's suspected espionage for China from the Chinese themselves.

Alan Cheuse, who teaches writing at George Mason University in Virginia, reviews Iron Shoes, a novel by award-winning short story writer Molly Giles. (2:00) Iron Shoes, by Molly Giles, is published by Simon & Schuster.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the success of an Internet company named Novica.com that is talking technology to remote areas and helping to enrich local artisans by selling their wares on-line.

Jeff Lunden reports that Cats Broadway's longest-running show, closed last night after almost 18 years. The final performance was given to an invitation-only crowd at the Winter Garden Theater in New York.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about the end of Bobby Knights career at Indiana as well as the US open.

The longest continuously running radio program in the world ended today. Rambling with Gambling was 75 years old. It had been on WOR in New York City since 1925 -- always hosted by someone named John Gambling: father, son and grandson. It was a morning program that started as an exercise show and became light talk, music, news and traffic & weather.

Wen Ho Lee, who was under suspicion of having given crucial nuclear weapons secrets to China, is about to go free. Sources say the fired nuclear scientist has agreed with federal prosecutors on a plea bargain under which he will admit to one count of downloading secure files to a non-secure computer at the Los Alamos nuclear lab. In return, he is to be sentenced to time already served, and released. NPR's Barbara Bradley looks at how the federal government's case against Wen Ho Lee fell apart.

Commentator Richard Goldstein says the current obsession with West Nile Fever seems strange. Other disease, such as tuberculosis have killed many more people and asthma, which affects thousands of children, is aggravated by cockroaches that infest the ghettos. He says a disease that torments the poor apparently just doesn't push the panic button.