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In an emotional address to the delegates, Nancy Reagan thanked them for giving her and her husband a life in politics, and regretted that former president Ronald Reagan was unable to speak to them this week.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that America Online is embarking on an expensive promotional campaign and switching stock exchanges in a bid to reposition itself in the face of growing competition. America Online grew to prominence as a NASDAQ stock, but is moving to the New York Stock Exchange as part of a broader campaign to increase public visibility.

Commentator Katherine Kersten says that the modern welfare state is built on a false premise that the goal of human life is to be happy and comfortable...and that it is the government's role to ensure that people are happy.

Scott commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution with an essay and sounds from the institution's various museums in the nation's capital.

- Daniel speaks with reporter Virginia Biggar about the other political convention that opens today, that of Ross Perot's Reform, Party. Biggar explains that today's event in Dallas, where Perot and his rival, former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm will deliver speeches, is only the first part of a two-phase convention. The second phase, she says, will include voting by mail and e-mail and the announcement of the party's candidate next Sunday.

Scott talks with retiring U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas.

Reporter Marc Rosenbaum finds a diary belonging to a grandmother he never met.

Daniel speaks with Jeanie Mahoney about an electronic pendant she wears as protection against her former husband who used to abuse her. Mahoney and other women across the country have been given these pendants by police. If they push a small button located on the pendant, the police are alerted to go immediately to the wearer's home.

- Daniel talks with poet Edward Hirsch who says that reading and understanding a poem can be fun. "Relax and don't worry about missing every reference," he says. "Enjoy the experience of the language itself. Pay attention to the feelings it evokes in you." Hirsch reads and talks about Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art." He also reads his own poem, "Summer Surprised Us" (from his book EARTHLY MEASURES). Hirsch's article, "How to Read These Poems," appears in the Fall issue of DOUBLETAKE magazine. Hirsch teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

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