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NPR'S Richard Gonzales reports on today's one-day walkout by thousands of workers at northern California hospitals. The union workers include nursing assistants, respiratory therapists and food service workers.

GREAVES continued.Classical Music Critic LLOYD SHWARTZ reviews this year's Music Festival in Dresden, Germany.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air - understanding cancer and its genetic mutations, from a Darwinian perspective. We talk to Doctor MEL GREAVES about his new book Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy. Greaves directs the leukemia research center at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Join us for the next fresh air.

NPR's Ted Clark examines the emerging relationship between the United States and North Korea. During the last six years, North Korea has gradually ended its isolation and moderated its confrontational approach toward the US and American allies. In return, the United States has supplied food aid. South Korea also has provided incentives to draw the North out of its isolation.

From Gainesville, Texas, Janet Heimlich reports on a juvenile prison that has begun teaching inmates computer networking to give them a useful skill when they get out. The Justice Department is eyeing the program as a model to use at other juvenile facilities to keep youth from returning to crime.

In the sixth of a series of summer commentaries about minor league baseball called Play by Play, NPR's Neal Conan profiles one of the players... a man who has spent the last 14 years trying to make it in baseball.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on efforts by Amtrak to increase business in face of the threat of losing their government subsidy in two years. Amtrak is introducing a new program designed to get travelers who have had a bad travelling experience to give the train service a second chance.

Host Bob Edwards talks to scholar Richard Newman about this week's page one apology by The Hartford Courant for its role in the slave trade. In the 1700s and early 1800s, the paper ran ads for slave sales and published notices by the owners of runaway slaves. Newman does research at the WEB Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. He says the Courant's apology is a sign that white Americans are becoming more aware of slavery's lingering effects.

When he was sixteen, Commentator Bill Harley worked at a seafood restaurant. He says learned about race, class and privilege when an angry cook hurled a baked potato at him.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Pretoria on the intense disappointment and anger that spread across South Africa today when the governing body for international soccer named Germany as the host of the 2006 World Cup. Many had expected South Africa to be selected, and South Africans were prepared for the country's largest celebrations since Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994. South Africa would have been the first African nation to host the Cup. Winning that honor would have also been a huge financial and political boost for the country.

Scott speaks with Hank Williams III, grandson of the legendary country singer. HIs new CD is titled Rising Outlaw (Curb Records)