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As the 2004 presidential election begins to heat up, All Things Considered plays excerpts from stump speeches made by Democratic candidates for the nomination. On Monday we hear an excerpt of a speech North Carolina Sen. John Edwards gave recently in Sioux City, Iowa.

Hurricane Ivan roars into Jamaica with 150 mph winds and drenching rain. But a shift in the Category 4 storm's path spares the capital city of Kingston from Ivan's full fury. The storm could hit Florida Monday. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and Kevin Sullivan of The Washington Post.

Despite construction delays, fears of terrorism and slow ticket sales, the summer Olympic games are about to get underway in Athens. Join NPR's Neal Conan and guests for a preview of the city, the sports, the scandals and the super-athletes.

Commentator Ted Rose wasn't particularly reflective when -- a year ago this week -- he chucked his rent-controlled one-bedroom on New York City's Upper West Side to embrace a Spartan life at a Buddhist retreat center in the middle of the Colorado Rockies.

NPR's Tony Cox speaks with CARE representative Yves Laurent Regis in Haiti, and Gary Pierre Pierre of New York City's Haitian Times about relief for the disastrous effects of Tropical Storm Jeanne.

NPR's Deborah Amos reports on the escalating ethnic tensions in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. During Saddam Hussein's rule, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Kurds and Turkmen were expelled from Kirkuk as part of a campaign to make the oil-rich region more Arabian. Now those exiles want their old homes back.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Daniel Laikind, executive producer of the television series Amish in the City. The series follows five Amish young adults and six non-Amish roommates who are living together in the Holywood Hills, near Los Angeles.

Fighting between followers of Muqtada al-Sadr and U.S. forces left much of Najaf heavily damaged. Sadr described the fighting as a struggle to defend the holy city. But in Najaf, a backlash is growing against the young cleric and his violent tactics. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

It's part of a performance art stunt designed to raise awareness about pollution in a coastal Chinese city.

Romance books are on the rise, even as overall book sales are declining. NPR's Juana Summers visited a romance book club at Baltimore's Charm City Books to see what brings readers to the genre.