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NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Arusha, Tanzania, that President Clinton has arrived there to lend American support to efforts to end Burundi's civil war. He met with former South African President Nelson Mandela, who has been trying to broker a Burundi peace, as well as with Burundi leaders. But five hard-line Tutsi groups boycotted the accord between Hutus and Tutsis that Clinton saw signed today.

Vice President Al Gore took a tour of a neighborhood pharmacy today in Tallahassee Florida, then met with about 150 senior citizens to talk about prescription drug costs. Gore told the seniors they ought to demand details from his presidential rival, Texas Gov. George W.Bush, who says he wants to help make prescription drugs affordable for all seniors. We hear excerpts from the campaign today.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports Australia is engaged in its largest peacetime security operation, in advance of the 2000 summer Olympics, in Sydney in two weeks. Australian security agencies are preparing for every possibility from hostage situations to biochemical warfare. Over the weekend, New Zealand police said they had uncovered a possible plot to target a nuclear plant near the Olympic site in Sydney. Australian officials are downplaying the incident as workers put finishing touches on the Olympic facilities. The government spent more than one-billion dollars on the construction. But Australians, known for their fierce enthusiasm for sports, are not complaining about footing the bill.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on his way home tomorrow, President Clinton will stop off in Cairo for urgent talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about the stalled Middle East peace process. Clinton is urging Mubarak to try to get his fellow Arabs to agree to continued Israeli sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem, something Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refuses to accept.

Robert talks to Kai Strom, the First Assistant Golf Professional at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Virginia, about the golf balls that are specially manufactured for Tiger Woods. A consumer group filed suit against Nike last week for an advertising campaign in which Woods endorses a Nike golf ball that he doesn't really use. The company says it will soon be selling the exact type of ball that Woods uses. Strom tells Robert that using the same ball Woods uses is unlikely to make another golfer play like Woods.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu ruminates on pigeons, old women, gondolas, and the quest for romance by young women visiting Venice. (3:30) MUSIC FOLLOWING STORY: "A Vucchella", on the CD "La Musica from Italy", copyright 1990, Delta Music Inc.

New research shows exercise need not be done all at once to protect against heart disease. NPR's Richard Knox reports that two15-minute sessions are as good as one 30-minute session.

Commentator Sydell Rabin talks about how her 50th high school reunion.

The soccer mom personified the swing voter in the last presidential election. This time everyone's talking about the "working waitress." Governor George W. Bush uses the example of the waitress to describe his tax cut. Vice President Al Gore attacks Bush's tax plan and recalls his own mother's working days as a waitress. Scott Horsley reports on how the candidates' competing tax plans would affect a real working waitress.

Robert talks to Richard Kroehling, creator andco-producer of the show Confessions, which debuts next month on Court TV.The show plans to play videotaped confessions of murders taken by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, without narration.