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Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel tell us the most popular street names in America.

Susan talks with NPR's Adam Hochberg about the mood inside the Olympic Village after this morning's explosion.

- NPR'S Jon Burnett reports that a ceasefire in Latin America's oldest civil war is holding. The catholic church has started a campaign of collecting stories from people who were victims during the war. It is hoped that the effort will bring people together and heal emotional as well as, physical wounds.

NPR'S Steve Inkseep reports from Long Island on the latest developments with the recovery effort and investigation into the crash of TWA flight 800. He also reports that two of the planes engines have been located.

NPR'S Vicky O'hara reports on an Amnesty International report released today that is highly critical of Israel. The report says Israel broke international law when it shelled a U-N compound last spring in Southern Lebanon. The London-based human rights group says the shelling was deliberate. More than one-hundred refugees were killed.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr, reflecting on the "Filegate" scandal and investigation, longs for the days when the government was made up of career officials, not partisan political appointees.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the upcoming Arab summit of heads of state in Cairo. This will be the first such summit in six years. They're getting together to forge a common policy toward Israel's new government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. The alliances in the Arab world seem to be falling into two camps...hardliners, headed by Syrian President Hafez Assad, and moderates, headed by Jordan's King Hussein.

At a briefing this afternoon in Long Island, National Transportation Safety Board vice chairman Robert Francis talked about what is now known about the data and voice recorders from TWA flight 800 that were retrieved from the ocean last night. We hear a portion of that briefing.

2: Writer, MARIO PUZO. His new novel is "The Last Don" (Random House, to be released in September 1996) He is best known for "The Godfather" (1969) and this new book returns him to that genre: the inner workings of the Mafia. The main character is an old man trying to secure his family's future in an era of legalized gambling, motion picture investments and the threat of government informers. His goal is threatened by familial in-fighting. Besides "The Godfather," PUZO has written "The Fortunate Pilgrim," and "The Dark Arena," both novels. The two-time Academy Award winner has written several screenplays, including are all three Godfathers and Superman I and II.

NPR's Adam Hockberg reports that thousands packed the ceremonies for the re-opening of Olympic Park in the heart of Atlanta today in a determined show of defiance to terrorist threats. The park, in the heart of the city was shut down after a pipe bomb explosion killed one woman and injured more than a hundred others.