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Charlotte Renner sends an audio postcard from North America's only college of bagpiping. The school, on Canada's Prince Edward Island, is trying to rid the world of bad piping.

Commentator Desiree Cooper talks about James, a young man who bludgeoned his father and is completely unrepentant about it. James says he suffered from abuse from his father. Cooper says that there is much concern about violence on television making kids more violent, but that real violence in their lives is an even more negative force in the lives of kids.

Catherine Houchins is pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge in Roanoke, VA. She is conducting funeral services for Danny Overstreet, who was shot and killed at a Roanoke gay bar on Friday. Six others were wounded in the shooting. Noah talks to her about the mood in the southwest Virginia community.

Senator Joe Lieberman is a household name because he's running for vice president. But he also has a second campaign to run this fall, for re-election to his Senate seat in Connecticut. He insists he intends to run both races, but some Democrats are having second thoughts. They worry that if Al Gore and Lieberman win the national race, Connecticut's Republican governor will fill the vacant Senate seat with a Republican. Connecticut Public Radio's John Dankosky reports.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews a new CD by Queens of the Stone Age. Its called R, as in the movie ratings code for Restricted. The band is currently on tour as part of OZZfest.

Representatives from the major film studios faced the Senate Commerce Committee today and promised to take steps to limit the marketing of violent R-rated films to children. The hearing came after a report by the Federal Trade Commission revealed that the studios sometimes target marketing campaigns at children too young to see R-rated films. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.

NPR's John McChesney returns to the area where his family farmed for many generations in Saline County, Missouri. It's a rich agricultural region, surrounded on two sides by the Missouri River. He compares the way of life he knew as a boy with some of the new farmers. He finds that in some ways the farmers' modern high-tech methods are their own worst enemies: greater yield means flat prices. And in hog farming, the almost-automated life of the modern hog seems immoral to some old-timers who had more affection for their animals.

Banning Eyre reviews the CD Paranda: Africa in Central America which features music from the Garifunas of Central America, people who are descended from Africans and Arawak Indians. The Garifuna music is called Paranda, and it's a lovely, mostly acoustic mix of blues, Cuban rhythms, and African styles still being sung and played by the few remaining "parandero" musicians. (3:00) The CD Paranda: Africa in Central America is on Stonetree Records, distributed internationally by Detour/Warner Brothers. The catalog number is 3984-27303-2.

IBM built its supercomputer Deep Blue and it subsequently became the world's first computer to win the world championship in chess. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on plans to build the world's fastest new computer to solve what is probably biology's most complex problem -- how proteins fold. (4:30) See http://foldingathome.stanford.edu.

Marion Jones won Olympic Bronze in the long jump, finishing three inches behind Germany's Heike Dreschler. It was her third medal in these games, but ends her quest for FIVE GOLD medals. Jones has already won two golds -- in the 100 and 200 meters. She still plans to run in two relays tomorrow. In an even bigger surprise, NPR's Eric Weiner reports, Morocco's Hicham el Gerrouj suffered a bitter defeat in the 1500 meters. He'd been virtually unbeatable since getting tangled with another runner and finishing last at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.