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Katherine Perkins of member station WOI reports on a summer camp for aspiring construction workers that Iowa contractors hope will grow the potential work force.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have completed an extensive study on way that war affects the human psyche. The study, conducted in Kosovo and published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes, that civilian populations in warzones experience unusually high levels of anxiety, sleeplessness, and other forms of psychiatric distress.

Texas Governor George Bush flew to West Virginia this morning for a rally at a veterans memorial. On the way there, Bush talked to reporters aboard his campaign airplane and shared his view of retired General Colin Powell's speech as well as President Clinton's comments about the Bush campaign. NPR's Don Gonyea is traveling with Bush as he heads toward the GOP convention in Philadelphia.

Commentator Lisa Jones says she's always been attracted to biologists, but put off by their often too-pure, "back-to-nature" lifestyle. But then she meets the biologist of her dreams...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu says traveling becomes harder in the summer, when the airports and hotels are full of tourists. His proposed alternative: stay home in a cool room and come down with a malady he calls spleen -- a malady that prevents you from doing or caring much about anything.

Shaffy Moeel, of Youth Radio, tours South Philadelphia with one of its young residents. South Philly is traditionally Italian, famous for Italian ice and cheesesteaks.

Commentator Katherine Mieszkowski talks about websites like CaringSuggestions.com that offer the "service" of delivering helpful hints you'd be embarrassed to deliver in person. An unsigned note can tip-off a co-worker to bad breath, or a neighbor to his unkempt yard. Mieszkowski thinks this new channel for anonymous advice is the perfect vehicle for the cowardly or vindictive.

Most Americans come to France expecting to see the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower. Commentator David Sedaris describes his experiences in the City of Lights from his preferred venue: the inside of a movie theater.

Veteran Broadcaster Robert Trout casts back to his early days as a reporter covering politics, to tell the story of the Republican Party's slide from a majority party to the minority in the 1930's and 1940's. For its first seventy years, the GOP was the dominant party. But from Hoover's loss to Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election until now, Republicans have been playing catch-up to the Democrats. This is the first of two reports.

JOHN WATERS continued.Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new album "Riding With the King" featuring guitarists B.B. King and Eric Clapton.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . the film maker who prides himself on his good bad taste. . . a talk with JOHN WATERS. His latest film "Cecil B. Demented" is about an underground film maker and his cult-following who declare war on bad movies. . . by kidnapping a star and forcing her to appear in their own film. That's coming up on the next Fresh Air.