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Host Steve Inskeep talks to columnist Doug Grow of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about a dispute over kosher dill pickles at the Minnesota State Fair.

Los Angeles film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the German movie Aimee and Jaguar. It's based on a bestseller that tells the true love story of two women during the Second World War. One woman, a Jewish poet, masquerades as an Aryan to work at a Nazi paper and passes information to the underground. Her lover is a conventional German wife, whose philandering husband is fighting on the front. Turan says the movie captures the complexity of the characters and the terror of the times.

Frank talks with Jennifer Ludden about the situation in the Middle East, as Israli and Palestinian leaders prepare to meet with President Clinton next week.

Back to School means the start of High School Football, but the rules are different since the Supreme Court stated that schools can no longer support pre-game prayer. In Santa Fe, Texas, scene of last year's student-led prayers, Adam Hochberg reports how some fans are challenging the Court's opinion.

Frank reads letters from listeners.

With the Sydney Olympic games less than two weeks away, NPR's Alex Chadwick takes us on a National Geographic Radio Expedition to find out how Australia's landscape sets it apart from the rest of the world.

NPR's Jack Speer reports that the United State Olympic Committee has filed a lawsuit to stop Nabisco from promoting its Fig Newtons as a foodstuff for Olympians. Nabisco is not an official Olympic sponsor, and the USOC says its ad is unfair to the companies who've paid for the Olympic logo.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the increasing number of minorities, immigrants, and women who are signing up with unions. This demographic change is causing labor to re-think its strategies, and to figure out new ways to appeal to workers in the changing economy.

Host Steve Inskeep talks with Professor of Labor History Nelson Lichtenstein about why companies so often have workers work overtime. The issue has been central to recent strikes at United Airlines and Viacom.

Joanne Silberner reports on the relationship between Wall Street and the health care market. As managed care companies become better investments, more and more decisions about the way people have access to their medical care are based upon economic concerns.