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In addition to the Republican National Convention, Philadelphia also hosted the 2000 National Youth convention this week. Youth Radio reporters Amit Paley and Megan Williams attended. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader addressed the gathering of young people. But delegates were disappointed that the Republican nominee did not. Issues at the convention included funding for education and drug rehabilitation.

Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, talks to author Bob Greene about the bombing and the lingering effects of World War II on those who fought in it. Greene's previous conversations with Tibbets were the basis for his bestselling book, Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War.

Co-Host Madeleine Brand talks to Susan Fillapelli, a communications professor at the University of Auburn in Alabama about some of the speeches at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Linda speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep who is travelling with the Bush-Cheney campaign on its train tour of several Great Lakes states. The newly nominated Republican team rallied in Philadelphia this morning, flew to Pittsburgh, and boarded a train for the Middle West.

Thousands of delegates and journalists pulled out of Philadelphia today, ending a week-long siege that accompanied the Republican National Convention. They leave with a different impression of the place, which calls itself the city that loves you back. It seems the city also wants the burden and bounty of the national convention back -- the sooner the better. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that ten years after the end of the Iraq war, the UN is geared to try to resume a new round of arms inspections, with a new organization and a new director. But, so far, Iraq is not cooperating. Iraq says the previous arms inspections that ended in 1998 had revealed all there was to reveal.

It was two years ago this month that car bombs exploded at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Commentator Pius Kamau is a surgeon in Denver. His sister was one of thousands that were either killed or injured in the blasts.

The Canadian Navy has boarded an American-owned ship that was contracted to carry Canadian military equipment back from a Kosovo peacekeeping mission. The ship has been circling in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, refusing to return the tanks, weapons, and other cargo until a financial dispute is worked out with a middleman. Linda talks to Natalie Clancy, a national reporter for CBC Television, in Halifax, Canada, about the situation.

Host Alex Chadwick talks with Mario Martinez, county commissioner of Hale County, Texas, where the duties of local government were recently limited by the county attorney.

NPR's Renee Montagne profiles writer Thomas Lynch. He's an award winning essayist and poet ...and he leads a double life. Lynch also is the proprietor of Lynch and Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (8:40) The name of the book mentioned Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch is published by W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930