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Just hours before his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention, George W. Bush attended a luncheon honoring his wife Laura. The program was sponsored by the National Federation of Republican Women, a group that says the Texas governor can end the Democrat's two-decade dominance among women. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Last night, Texas Governor George W. Bush accepted the GOP nomination. In his acceptance speech, Bush told delegates that he'll work for better education, stronger Social Security and Medicare, lower tax rates, a stronger military. He accused the Clinton-Gore administration of squandering the opportunities presented by the good economic times and the huge government surpluses.

NPR's Renee Montagne profiles writer Thomas Lynch. He's an award winning essayist and poet ...and he leads a double life. Lynch also is the proprietor of Lynch and Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (8:40) The name of the book mentioned Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch is published by W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930

Carolyn Johnson of Nebraska Public Radio reports on an effort in the state to built one of the world's largest networks of cosmic ray detectors. A physics professor is putting the detectors on the roofs of all 314 Nebraska high schools to help students get hands on science experience.

Linda speaks with Seth Shostak, an astronomer at SETI (Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, funding for a new radio telescope to be devoted to listening for intelligent life in other parts of the universe. The telescope will be located near the Mount Lassen National Park in Northern California, and Shostak says it will improve the chances of hearing a signal from intelligent life by a thousand fold.

Linda went on the floor of the Democratic National Convention last night, to talk to delegates about what they want to hear tonight from vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman. The delegates were hot to hear about ISSUES, including education, prescription drugs, social security -- and what he and Al Gore propose to do to make these things better for Americans.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on a federal appeals court ruling that rejects some new rules for tracking phone calls and other digital communications. The judges say that the Federal Communications Commission needs to rewrite regulations to address privacy issues. The court is concerned about revealing numbers a subject dials after a phone call is connected, such as credit card numbers. The judges also note that trapping some online communications would capture content as well as routing information, so the FBI should meet a high standard of need. In addition, the court upholds rules that require phone companies to help law enforcement determine the location of a cellular phone caller.

Noah talks to Travis Bell, the developer of high tech sled runners for the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team, about the theft of some bobsled runners from his storage locker. Four sets of the runners were found behind an abandoned service station, but seven sets are still missing.

Commentator Judy Muller says there are similarities between Joseph Lieberman, the democrats' vice-presidential candidate, and his predecessor 16 years ago, Geraldine Ferraro. She says Lieberman will be scrutinized as a symbol of American Jews, just as Ferraro was seen as a symbol of American women.

Steven Dudley reports from Bogota that Colombia's President Andres Pastrana has ordered an investigation of the military's involvement in an attack that resulted in the deaths of six schoolchildren. It took place 40-miles from Medellin. The children, aged 6-to-12, were on a school hike when gunfire erupted. The regional army commander initially said the children had been caught in crossfire between military forces and guerrillas. But survivors said that there were no guerrillas in the area and the children were pinned down for 45 minutes by military fire. The killings occurred just two months after the U-S Congress approved one-point-three billion dollars of mostly military aid to help Colombia fight the drug trade and guerrilla movements.