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Mid-summer is the busiest time of year for America's traveling circuses. These family-owned businesses play rural towns and county fairs across the country. Stiff competition from movies and television has forced circuses to be leaner and more efficient - but the allure of clowns and elephants and trapeze artists still draws a good crowd. Reporter Brian Mann spent the morning recently with a circus as they prepared for a show.

Napster has won a temporary reprieve. A federal appeals court stayed a lower court injunction that would have effectively shut down the song-swapping service used by millions. NPR's John McChesney reports.

Scott talks to Chicago fire commissioner James T. Joyce about that fire deparment's decision to retire the fire pole.

Scott speaks with Kitty Harmon about a new book she has edited called, Up to No Good, the Rascally Things Boys Do, as Told by Perfectly Decent Grown Men.

Millions of music fans cheered Friday's appeals court ruling that lets the internet music company Napster stay in business at least temporarily. Napster was slated to shut down most of its Web service at midnight Friday. Jacki talks to NPR's Rick Karr about why Napster has been such a hot-button case for music fans and internet users, and why the move to shut it down may hurt the recording industry more than help it.

On Friday the Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court for its official thoughts about pot. Two weeks ago a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there can be legitimate medical reasons to make the drug available legally. Now the Justice Department's action could set the stage for new rules about marijuana. Kai Ryssdal reports from San Francisco.

A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government shows that a significant number of voters who say they will vote for Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore also say they might change their minds. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the surprising Chicago White Sox baseball team: surprising that they're playing so well, and because very few people in Chicago seem to care.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the Reverend Franklin Graham about his life and his ministry. Graham stands poised to inherit his father's Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

Scott Simon talks to Georgetown professor of biology Martha Weiss about the amazing frass flinging (caterpillar feces) abilities of the silver spotted skipper caterpiller.