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On archival tape from the University of South Dakota, the late Cowboy Poet Badger Clark reads the first poem he ever published.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with French farmer and activist Jose Bove, who is in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend attending a conference titled, "Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food as Culture." ("Terroir" means the relationship between food and the land.)

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR's Julie Rovner about the health care proposals from presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. Rovner says that while Universal Health Care Coverage was the buzz word in health care reform some years ago, there's been little mention of it this election season - except from Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR science reporter David Kestenbaum about whether or not the hottest item of Olympic clothing will really help athletes swim faster or just make them look faster.

Host Jacki Lyden reads leaders from listeners.

Most people don't think of rivers when they think of Los Angeles, but in fact, the city does have one. And as Laura Sydell reports, activists are working hard to beautify that body of water which has become much more closely associated with scary scenes in movies than a bucolic retreat for local residents.

NPR News Correspondent David Welna chronicles the story of the town of Mitchell, first built during the era of the railroad and now struggling to stay alive as farming communities in the surrounding area lose their young people to economic opportunities away from the land.

NPR reporter Martin Kaste visits the beachs of Copacabana and Ipanema where Brazil's beach volleyball teams practice for the Olympics. The women's team is the favorite going into the games, which will be played for the first time this year on real sand.

Poet and author Kathleen Norris reads an adaptation from her award-winning book, Dakota: A Spiritual Journey, telling of the geographic and social hallmarks that have drawn people to the state, and made it so great a challenge for natives and settlers to make their lives in the Dakota Territory.

Liane stops at Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota's biggest tourist attraction, and speaks with a visitor who found inspiration in the mountainside carving of the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.