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Scott speaks with Octavio Roca, music and dance critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. Twenty-five years ago the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington D-C opened. Mr. Roca was a student at the time, and remembers that event.

- Host Cory Flintoff speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb, who is in northern Iraq in the aftermath of Iraqi forces' move into the region. Goldfarb says Iraqi forces are dug into position just inside the Kurdish safe-haven zone and that United Nations officials are concerned about Turkish plans to establish a security zone in another portion of northern Iraq near the Turkish border

2:EDWARD TENNER is author of "Why Things Bite Back" from Knopf. It's about the unintended effects that new technological breakthroughs bring us. Such as using more paper, not less, as a result of increased use of computers. Tenner is also a researcher at Princeton University in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews this week''s edition of the PBS summer series "P.O.V."

The FBI has been warning about an increased danger of terrorism in the U-S, but other experts say domestic terrorism incidents are actually on the decline. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

begins tomorrow. Prime Minister Hashimoto dissolved parliament early hoping to strengthen his party's hold on power, but the opposite may happen.

Commentator Mickey Edwards discusses the Lexington, North Carolina story involving a first-grade boy who kissed a little girl at school...and who got in a lot of trouble. He thinks that the grownups involved in the story are the ones who should stand in the corner.

Former NPR newscaster and Washington DC producer Rich Adams died late yesterday at age 53. The exact cause of death has not been determined. Adams worked at NPR from 1971-74. He went on to produce the programs "Agronsky and Company" and "Inside Washington" at WUSA-TV. He wrote a column called "EMS" for FIREHOUSE magazine. Adams was a long-time emergency medical technician. Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg discuss the career and influence of Rich Adams.

Commentator Don Eberly says there are a couple of reasons for this year's voter apathy. One is that campaigns rely too heavily on partisan attacks; the other is that people expect both too little and too much from politics. They expect too much when they think government can solve all their problems, and they expect too little when they settle for policy jargon, rather than a compelling vision of national renewal. Politicians need to do a better job pointing the way out of the nation's social crisis---and they should debate issues out of genuine regard for the common good.

to have an operation on his appendix.