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NPR's Uri Berliner reports from Sydney, Australia that most of the major league baseball teams have sent scouts to the Sydney games. The scouts are there to evaluate players especially pitchers in an effort to find new talents from various countries around the world.

Matthew Ferguson of Michigan Public Radio reports on the ruling against Ameritech. The Chicago-based phone service was fined for failing to clear the credit record of a customer who was wrongly billed for an account. The company, which serves five Midwestern states, has been under investigation in Indiana and Wisconsin for slow repair and service lapses.

From member station KPBS in San Diego, Carrie Kahn reports on the Iraqi Christians who are seeking asylum in U.S Already, 75 refugees have crossed from Mexico into the U.S., and over a hundred are still waiting. Most of them sneaked out of Iraq, then spend several years in Turkey or Greece before heading to Mexico.

Marcie Sillman from member station KUOW reports that the fate of a 93-hundred year old skeleton known as Kennewick Man is still in limbo. The Clinton Administration says the bones should be returned to the five tribes who claim them...but eight Oregon scientists have taken the case to federal court.

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.

Professor Michael A. Bellesiles on the history of gun culture in America. His new book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture looks at our country's obsession with guns. Historically, he says it began around the civil war. Before that, there was virtually no access to firearms. His research refutes the conventional lore that Colonial families were armed, and that the gun was the symbol of the frontier. Bellesiles is a Colonial historian at Emory University, and the Director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence.

Robert talks to Aleksa Djilas, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, about the apparent winner in the Yugoslav election, Vojislav Kostunica. Djilas says Kostunica is not corrupt, has no ties to Milosevic, is educated, a legal scholar and respects the rule of law.

Noah interviews Virginia State Trooper Mike Scott about a weekend assault on cars traveling down Interstate 95 by monkeys armed with pieces of fruit. Scott was hailed to the scene by a motorist who said a monkey had thrown a banana at her car. When they returned to the scene together, a trio of spider monkeys was tossing crab apples from an oak tree alongside the highway. Scott says he has no idea where they got the apples and bananas, nor where they came from.

The Australian press is heralding Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman as a symbol of reconciliation between blacks and whites in that country. She won the Gold Medal in the 400 meters. Noah talks with Australian Senator Aden Ridgeway -- the only aboriginal member of federal parliament -- about racial tension in Australia and why he feels the government needs to apologize for the treatment of Aborigines.

C.J. Hunter, the world champion in the shot put and the husband of sprinter Marion Jones, has tested positive for steroids. As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, US track officials were aware of Hunter's test result in mid-August but kept it confidential. Now that it has been disclosed in the middle of the Olympics, the news could become a major distraction to Jones in her pursuit of five gold medals.