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Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Tom Goldman about some of the events and results at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. The Netherlands pulled off the biggest shock of the tournament with their 4-2 victory over Cuba. The U.S. softball team lost its third straight extra-inning marathon. This time Australia beat the Americans 2-1 in 13 innings.

Commentator Thomas Kenneally, author of Shindler's List and a native Australian, introduces his country and its people, starting with his hometown, the Sydney suburb of Homebush.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Jacky Rowland about Sunday's Presidential elections in Yugoslavia. Yesterday, more than 100-thousand people turned out to cheer Vojislav Kostunica, the man seeking to defeat Slobodan Milosevic in Sunday's elections.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the elections in Yugoslavia. No official results have yet been released, but opposition says that their leader Vojislav Kostunica is ahead. This is in sharp contrast to government's statements that President Slobodan Milosevic is winning.

As part of a Monday series on third party Presidential candidates, Bob Edwards talks with Libertarian nominee, Harry Browne. At the heart of his party's platform is a call for the abolition of the income tax. Libertarians want to eradicate intrusive government.

We visit The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000 in Stanhope, New Jersey. Host Jacki Lyden talks with poets Mark Doty, Anne Waldman, and Yusef Komunyakaa -- and we hear their poetry. Jacki also talks with Jim Haba, the director of the festival.

The top-selling computer game this year isn't Pokemon or Nintendo -- it's a virtual family, the Sims. These computer-generated characters let you design and program their day-to-day activities, just like a real family. And just like a real family, they respond in unexpected ways. Susan Stone reports.

Host Mike Shuster talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about an upcoming meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads his poem The Deck. Komunyakaa and dozens of other poets performed and read and chatted and signed autographs at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Stanhope, New Jersey this past weekend. In the second half of the program we'll hear more about the festival and more from the poets themselves.

There were no major science discoveries this week, but there WERE some good moments. NPR's David Kestenbaum has this week's wrap-up of news from the world of science.