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The disease could mean a shortage of pasta.

Noah talks with David Lamb, author of "Over the Hills," about his trip across the country on his bike. He began the ride in Virginia and ended it on the Santa Monica pier in California. Lamb describes his junk food diet and pack a day smoking that sustained him for the journey. "Over the Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle," is published by Times Books: NY, 1996.

Linda talks with Erik Larson, a staff writer for Time Magazine, about the illegal firearms market and how Chinese (and other) illegal weapons find a market in the United States. The traders bringing these weapons into the country are selling a large number of them to dealers for the gun shows that tour the nation. Yesterday's seizure of two thousand automatic weapons from China has brought the problem of illegal firearms trading into the national spotlight. (Larson is the author of "Lethal Passage," published in paperback last year by Vintage Books.)

Scott speaks with NPR's Eric Weiner about the upcoming Israeli elections.

Commentator Alan Cheuse reviews The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji (vah-san-gee). It's the story of a British colonial officer's years spent in East Africa before the beginning of World War I. (Published by Picador)

In the second part of Robert's interviews with religious Jews about their political leanings for the upcoming elections, he visits the West Bank settlement of Betar (beh-TAR). The residents of Betar are mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews who look to their religious leaders for guidance in choosing candidates. He talks to the Greenwalts, a couple with four children, who say that they will probably vote for one of the religious political parties.

Scott talks with Sandy Perceval in Scotland about the cigars in his cellar which turned out to be 132 years old.

Noah Adams talks with our poetry critic Cathy Bowman about Quincy Troupe and his latest book of poetry called Avanlanche. The book is published by Coffee House Press.

Heavy rains have caused flooding in three Midwestern states. Hundreds of residents who live along the Mississippi have been evacuated from their homes. Robert Siegel talks with East St. Louis mayor Gordon Bush about floods which have inundated his city.

to make private pensions safer and more available to working Americans. The proposal comes just a day after a rather similar Republican proposal to bolster pensions.