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NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Los Angeles on Vice President Al Gore's commitment to keeping medical records private. At a town meeting, the Democratic candidate discussed with the audience problems with medical information being sold to drug companies or other businesses. Gore says as president, he'll work to make these kinds of disclosures illegal.

NPR'S Rob Gifford reports on a new retail delivery service in Beijing that accepts customer orders over the internet.

BBC reporter Andrew Cassell) talks to Noah Adams about the trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a Libyan man who is a self-professed former double agent testified against one of the defendants, saying that the defendant kept explosives in his airport office.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Prague on the opening of The World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings. To counter the expected protests, the World Bank is trying emphasize that they are listening to pleas for social justice...and they're doing that with Bono...the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the issue of drugs continues to overshadow the Summer Olympic games. Today, sixteen-year old Romanian Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-round gold medal after she took a banned stimulant contained in two cold medicine pills that was given to her by the team doctor.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports on Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush's claim that America is 'suffering from an education recession.' Bush hopes to use his criticism of the Clinton-Gore administration education policies to win the support of female voters.

Two stories on the Presidential campaign: NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on Democratic nominee Al Gore's appearance last night on MTV's Choose or Lose program, where he answered questions from college students. NPR's Andy Bowers reports on Republican nominee George W. Bush's appearance on CNN with Larry King. Host Larry King interviewed Governor Bush and his wife, Laura.

Mary Winn — a teacher for 60 years in Clinton, Iowa — loves to make quilts, crochet, journal, tell jokes and travel.

Host Bob Edwards checks in with Dartmouth Business Professor Andrew Bernard about the predictions he made at the beginning of the Olympic Games. Bernard and his colleagues used each country's socio-ecomonic statistics to calculate the number of medals each team would win. Now it's time to check their accuracy.

Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence officer, died in London weeks after drinking tea that was later found to have been laced with the deadly radioactive compound polonium-210.