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On Tuesday, three members of the Kansas State Board of Education who voted to remove the theory of evolution from state-wide assessment tests are facing election battles. Peter Hancock of member station KANU reports that the school board race is garnering unprecedented attention, and the evolution issue has become something of a litmus test for candidates in many state-wide races.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Khalil Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research about Arab reaction to President Clinton's statement that he would consider moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Such a move would directly support Israeli claims over the city. Shikaki says the President's statement helps breed deep suspicion that the U.S. isn't impartial when it arbitrates between Israel and the PLO.

UN Peacekeeping forces have begun to deploy along Israel's the border with Lebanon. Since the Israeli troop pull-out earlier this year, the border strip had been under the control of the Hizbollah Guerillas. Reporter Kate Seelye has more on what the arrival of peaccekeeping forces mean for the people of Southern Lebanon.

She could become the nation's new First Lady - but what does the nation know of Laura Bush? This week's GOP convention will give voters the first chance to see the woman who stands at the candidate's side. NPR's Wade Goodwyn spent time with Bush friends and associates and brings us this profile of Laura Bush.

Stanley Kunitz will be named Poet Laureate today in Washington. Kunitz, a 95 year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is the country's oldest poet laureate.

A new magazine arrives on-line today, after a few false starts. Failure magazine is, as its title implies, about failure: battles lost, sports blunders, products that didn't catch on. The fact that someone would even come up with an idea for such a magazine suggests that, in an age when dot-coms come and go like buses, the very notion of failure may not have the stigma it once did when Willie Loman first walked the boards. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports. (7:30) For more information, visit http://failuremag.com

Performances continue and we hear from TOM RIIS who compiled and edited a book containing the complete score of In Dahomey. RIIS directs the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado and is the author of Just Before Jazz.PERFORMANCES CONTINUED.Conductor MAURICE PERESS. He specializes in reconstructing historic American concerts. Hes worked with Ellington and Bernstein, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Living With American Music: Dvorak to Duke Ellington.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . our encore presentation of our American popular song series continues, with the music of Will Marion Cook, the principal composer of the 1903 Broadway musical In Dahomey, the first Broadway show written and performed by African Americans. Join us for the next Fresh Air.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that a bill to ban almost all forms of Internet gambling failed to pass the House of Representatives yesterday. The measure would have allowed betting on horse and dog tracks, jail-alai matches to continue. Critics of the bill say it is unenforceable, since most online casinos operate outside the United States.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that George W. Bush made a campaign stop in Little Rock Arkansas yesterday. The Texas Governor toured a youth center, and later attended a fund raising dinner.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on today's Senate debate over a bill that would give a tax break to some married couples. Sponsors of the measure say it fixes a discrepancy that causes some married people to pay more income tax than they would if they were filing as singles. Senators opposed to the bill say it also gives a tax cut to couples who don't pay the so-called marriage penalty, but in fact pay less filing jointly than they would singly.