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This week Chase Manhattan Corporation announced it would merge with J.P. Morgan and Company. Although the new company will be called J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, the merger closes a chapter on the storied history of the 150-year old Morgan bank. Scott speaks with Fortune Magazine's editor-at-large Joe Nocera about the end of banks as we know them.

This week a bill directing millions to poor rural communities by way of the timber industry passed. Kristian Foden-Vencil of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch jsnat the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia; Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain and Hilary Rosen of the Recording Industry Association of America at a hearing on the Federal Trade Commission's report on the marketing of adult media to young people; Mark Holscher, attorney for nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, after his client's release from jail; Attorney General Janet Reno and President Bill Clinton on Lee's release; New York Senate candidates Hilary Clinton and Rick Lazio in their first debate; British Health Minister and Alan Milburn and protester Terry Morgan on Britain's high gas prices.

Host Scott Simon talks with author and Olympic historian David Wallchinsky about what it takes to add a new sport to the Olympics, and which sports are currently contenders for future games.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Perkins, the first African-American mayor of Selma, Alabama. The defeated mayor, Joe Smitherman, was the man who called out the National Guard on civil rights protesters in 1965.

It was 204 years ago this week that America's first president announced to the nation he would not seek a third term in office. George Washington had entered office a war hero but had become discouraged by newspaper attacks on his character. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington biographer Willard Sterne Randall about how Washington's departure paved the way for a two-party system and for a tradition of attacks on character.

Another lawsuit against the gun industry has been dismissed in Illinois, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

NPR'S Melanine Peeples reports on dire conditions following three years of severe drought in the southeastern United States.

Whit Stillman is the writer, director and producer of the film The Last Days of Disco which portrayed the disco scene in New York in late 1970's to the early 1980's. Stillman also wrote and directed the films Metropolitan and Barcelona. His new book is a novel which follows the action of his disco film, The Last Days of Disco with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). (REBROADCAST from 6

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the move by Republicans in the House to authorize the building of a monument to former president Ronald Reagan on the National Mall in Washington. It has already passed the House Resources Committee and is on the way to a full floor vote before Congress adjourns next month. Democrats say the move is less about honoring Reagan than it is about injecting him into the current presidential campaign. The move, if it passes, would circumvent a law that says no one can be honored with a memorial in the nation's capital until 25 years after the person's death.