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Reporter DAVE DAVIES talks about Philadelphia and next weeks Republican National Convention. Hell talk about what the city did to get the convention, what image the city is trying to project, and what the city is doing to prepare for the delegates, the protestors, and the media. DAVIES will also talk about the current controversy surrounding the Philadelphia police. DAVIES is a long time reporter in the Philadelphia area. He covers City Hall and city politics for the Philadelphia Daily News.12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Biographer HOWARD POLLACK is the author of –Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man— (University of Illinois Press). This year marks the 100th anniversary of Coplands birth. Though Copland was jewish, gay, and raised in Brooklyn, his work came to personify the American West, with such well known compositions as –Billy the Kid— and –Rodeo.— Copland also wrote –Appalachian Spring,— and –Fanfare for the Common Man.— Copland also wrote the film scores for –The Red Pony,— and –The Heiress.— POLLACK is professor of music history and literature at the University of Houston. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air how Philadelphia won the bid to host the Republican National Convention and what its done to prepare for it. We talk to Philadelphia Daily News reporter Dave Davies. Also the life and work of composer Aaron Copland (–Cope-land—). This year marks the centenary of his birth. Join us for the next fresh air.

Commentator Lester Reingold says he thinks the recent crash of a Concorde in France signals the end of an era in aviation.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on the resurgence of downtown Philadelphia, the site of next week's Republican Convention. This is the first national political convention Philadelphia has hosted since 1948. During the 1990's, the city underwent major renovations, after suffering decades of decline.

Scott and Daniel Pinkwater read from the children's book Brave Potatoes, a story about a group of potatoes and their attempt not to spend life on a couch or in a pan.

Jacki talks with Jacques Klein, the head of the U.N. Mission in Bosnia about a memorial service held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the massacre of more than seven thousand Bosnian Muslims, mostly men and boys. This week, thousands of women returned to the Serb-controlled Srebenica, many for the first time.

Harriet Jones reports on the continuing effort to identify the dead from the massacre in Srebrenica. She visits the town of Tuzla where scientists are using the latest DNA identification techniques to attempt to give grieving families a sense of closure.

Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa speaks to the participants of the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. We have an excerpt of his remarks.

After a Florida jury announced a $145 billion verdict against the nation's biggest tobacco companies, the companies' lawyers say they will appeal. They also say, that if forced to pay, the settlement will bankrupt the tobacco giants. Anti-smoking activists disagree. NPR's Jim Zarolli reports.

This week, Polish-born Jan Karski, one of the first people to report an eyewitness account of the Nazi Holocaust to the West, died in Washington D.C. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Karski biographer Tom Wood. Wood is the author of Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. Jan Karski was a liason officer for the Polish underground during World War II and a retired history professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He was 86.