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NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports that progress continues to be slow towards developing a vaccine for AIDS. Experts from developing countries say one of the reasons is that the developed world has diverted too much of its resources to researching treatments. There's also disagreement over when and whether to test vaccines that appear to only be partially effective.

about the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team. Better known as the "Dream Team", the squad is heavily favored to win the Olympic gold medal. Last night, for example, they crushed the Chinese Olympic team by a score of 119-58 in an exhibition match -- Moran says it's the type of result that's come to be expected of them.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Belfast that the police in Northern Ireland today changed their minds and allowed a Protestant fraternal group of marchers to parade through a Catholic neighborhood. To clear the way for the marchers, police dragged off a group of Catholics who were sitting in the middle of the road to protest the march.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Carl Cannon, White House orrespondent of the Baltimore Sun and Mike Christiansen, defense policy editor or the Congressional Quarterly Magazine about a number of topics in this week's ews including the explosion of TWA's flight 800, the Welfare reform bill which he US Senate passed, a compromise Health Care bill and Campaign '96.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jeff Adams, a novelist and d Frascino cartoonist for New Yorker magazine about their book, "archyology:the ong lost tales of archy and mehitabel." (University Press of New England). The ook is a collection of lost works of Don Marquis, creator of Archy the ockroach and his sidekick Mehitabel.

-- this time in Catholic areas. Three police officers were shot and injured by rioters in a staunch IRA neighborhood of North Belfast.

As the summer's first major storm hits the U.S., NPR's Adam Hochberg will talk with Linda about damage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Eileen Leblanc (luh-BLAHNK) of member station WHQR will report from Wilmington, NC. Both cities are in the path of the storm.

Linda talks with Catherine Bowman about the poetry of seventy-year-old Philip Booth. We'll hear one of his early poems and two of his new poems.

Joshua Levs reports from member station W-A-B-E on what Olympic organizers are calling "ambush advertising." The Olympic Committee in Atlanta is concerned about the unlicensed use of Olympic images and references in advertising. After the Olympic Committee threatened a state lawsuit, Adidas withdrew a television commercial this week that depicted images of past Olympic Games.

Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.