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SIMON/RUBE GOLDBERG: THE 8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL RUBE GOLDBERG CONTEST WAS HELD LAST SATURDAY, AND WON BY A TEAM OF EIGHT PURDUE STUDENTS FOR DESIGNING AND BUILDING A GADGET THAT CAN TURN ON A RADIO IN THE MOST ELABORATE MANNER. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH CHARLES KROUSGRILL (krowse-grill), PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, AND A JUDGE IN THE CONTEST.

Laura Seidel reports from New York on the extradition to Oklahoma of convicted double murderer Thomas Grasso. Grasso had been serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York--a state with no death penalty--but is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma early tomorrow morning.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on conflicting feelings in Japan as the August anniversary of the end of World War Two approaches.

SIMON/TEAMSTERS-BASEBALL: THE TEAMSTERS, WHO REPRESENT DRIVERS FOR MANY OF THE U.S. BEER DISTRIBUTORS THAT DELIVER PRODUCTS TO 23 OF THE 26 MAJOR LEAGUE STADIUMS IN THE UNITED STATES, HAVE DECIDED NOT TO CROSS ANY PICKET LINES ORGANIZED BY STRIKING BASEBALL PLAYERS. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TEAMSTERS UNION PRESIDENT RON CAREY.

SIMON/BERKELEY HOUSE: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ARCHITECT EUGENE TSUI (t-SOU-ee) ABOUT A HOME HE DESIGNED AND IS CONSTRUCTING FOR HIS PARENTS IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, WHICH HE SAYS IS "QUAKE-PROOF, FLOOD-PROOF, FIRE-PROOF AND TERMITE-PROOF."

SCOTT SIMON VISITS CLEVELAND, OHIO, WHERE FOR YEARS COMEDIANS AND THEIR ILK HAVE DELIGHTED IN MAKING FUN OF THE RUSTBELT CITY. BUT RECENTLY THE CITY HAS UNDERGONE A FACELIFT. SCOTT SIMON TALKS TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK THERE TO FIND OUT WHAT TODAY'S CLEVELAND IS ALL ABOUT.

We take a moment to solicit phone calls about what kind of music our listeners clean their house to. 1:00 Funding Credit Cross Promo Station Break (:59) Forward Promo

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that Palestinian strawberry growers are struggling to export their fruit to foreign purchasers. But an Israeli agricultural company is doing everything it can to keep direct exports from taking place.