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Linda talks with Andy Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the part Catholic voters will play in this year's presidential election. Traditionally, as a block, Catholics have voted as Democrats, but the abortion issue is attracting Catholics to the Republican party.

At union halls around the country, Texas workers are talking about conditions in the Lone Star State and their relationship with GOP Gov. George Bush. The roadshow is sponsored by AFL-CIO leaders, who promise an all out campaign for Bush's Democratic rival, Al Gore. Persuading rank-and-file voters to oppose Bush is but challenge one. Next they must convince workers to vote for Gore. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that even young men need to worry about their cholesterol levels. A study in this week's Journal of The American Medical Association finds that men who had high cholesterol in their 20s and 30s were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease later in life.

MANN AND WEIL CONTINUED.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill. Their hits include Youve Lost That Lovin Feelin, On Broadway, Uptown, and We Gotta Get Out of This Place. Thats coming up on the next Fresh Air.

From member station WABE in Atlanta, NPR's Joshua Levs reports on the sudden death of Georgia Republican Senator Paul Coverdell, who had been hospitalized over the weekend. He was 61.

Host Bob Edwards talks to reporter Barnaby Phillips about the recurring pipeline explosions in Nigeria, in which hundreds of people have died.

Nancy Solomon of member station KLCC in Eugene, Oregon reports that baseball fans still flock to one of the few remaining old-fashioned baseball stadiums for the sheer joy of the game.

Tim Crowley of North Carolina Public Radio reports North Carolina like several other states is rethinking the effectiveness of private prisons. The state department of corrections recently cancelled a contract with the private Corrections Corporation of America allowing the company to run two medium security prisons. State officials say they were concerned with the quality of staff CCA provided. The company blames its staffing problems on the rural setting of the prisons and says it didn't mismanage the state's prisons.

NPR's Rick Karr reports that attorneys representing journalist Eric Corley will ask an appellate court to remove Judge Lewis A. Kaplan from the federal case. Corley is being sued by eight motion picture companies in federal court for copyright infringement. The defense claims Judge Kaplan has a conflict of interest, since he once worked at a New York law firm that represented Warner Brothers studio, which is one of the plaintiff in the case. Earlier the attorneys asked the judge to recuse himself, but Kaplan refused.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore about his campaign for the White House. Gore says most people's interest in the Presidential campaign won't really intensify until after Labor Day. And, he says, people know him as Vice President but not as a person. He explains the fundamental differences between his positions on some of the major issues and those of Republican candidate George W. Bush.