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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.

Russia claims an attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers. Ukraine and some reporters on the ground say that's not true.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs clash this weekend in Super Bowl 57 in Arizona.