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The Summer Olympics in Sydney will surely attract travelers to Australia. Liane talks to Bill Bryson, author of In A Sunburned Country, about his adventures down under. He says there's a lot more to this vast continent than kangaroos and Crocodile Dundee. (Broadway Books)

Last year, the United States changed their travel policy toward Cuba, promoting people to people programs. N-P-R's Tom Gjelten reports on two Cuban delegations currently visiting this country.

The Hebrew Bible mandates that the land is to lie fallow every seventh year. In Israel, farmers have gotten around that ancient edict thanks to a legal loophole. Now, ultra-Orthodox officials are trying to close that loophole, and the effort has touched off heated debate among farmers and religious leaders. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

Liane talks with reporter Jon Miller from Lima, Peru, where President Alberto Fujimori has announced that he will call for new presidential elections -- and that he will not be a candidate.

Twenty years ago, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter announced that the U-S would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The boycott affected some 200 U-S athletes, many of whom remain bitter about being denied their only chance to compete for their country in the Olympics. Nancy Greenleese of member station KPBS reports.

Christine Arrasmith from member station KPLU reports on clean-up efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state. The Hanford site contains one of the world's largest backlogs of radioactive waste, dating back to World War Two. This spring, the Department of Energy fired the firm contracted to do the job, which is supposed to be completed by 2028. Officials say that deadline will be tough to meet.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, the story of some 10,000 German Jewish children sent to live with British families just before World War II. The rescue operation came to be known as the "Kindertransport."

NPR'S Jennifer Ludden reports on the revival of a radio program in Israel that seeks to reunite Holocaust survivors. "The Department for Seeking Relatives-The Next Generation" is enjoying phenomenal popularity since it was launched earlier this summer.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with Richard Kingsmill, a disc jockey for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Kingsmill's programs are heard nationally on "Triple J," an ABC station that specializes in home-grown Australian pop music. Kingsmill plays some tunes for us.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the relationship of money and politics on the media. He notes that TV stations stand to make some 600 million dollars from the sale of political ads this year, and reminds us of the million dollar rights fee paid by ABC to Monica Lewinsky for her interview during the impeachment scandal.