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Alan Cheuse reviews Eater, a new novel by Gregory Benford, a physics professor at the University of California's Irvine campus. Benford is one of the country's most prolific and successful writers of science-fiction. (2:00) Eater, by Gregory Benford is published by Avon.

NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that even young men need to worry about their cholesterol levels. A study in this week's Journal of The American Medical Association finds that men who had high cholesterol in their 20s and 30s were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease later in life.

NPR's Ted Clark reports the Camp David summit has entered its crucial final stages, with no firm word on whether an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal can be sealed before President Clinton's scheduled departure for Japan early Wednesday.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the new movie, X-Men.

Dan Tritle from Member Station WNAN on Nantucket reports that tomorrow morning, a Boston woman and a blind Australian man hope to become the first to swim from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket. The islands are off the Massachusetts coast, in often turbulent Atlantic waters.

Host David Wright speaks with political analyst Stuart Rothenberg about what a Republican vice presidential nominee must bring to a Bush ticket. Governor Bush is expected to name his running mate in the next few days.

A former US Olympic Committee official alleges the USOC not only looked the other way, but encouraged Olympic athletes to take performance enhancing drugs. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Scott speaks with Williams College historian James McGregor Burns. Professor Burns says the problem with this year's Presidential election is that there is too much moderation.

Scott talks to Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's first symphony ("Symphony #1 in C-major").

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.