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Host Renee Montagne talks with NPR's Michael Sullivan about the trial of former Indonesian President Suharto in Jakarta. The accused was not present because his doctors say he's too frail to stand trial.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Marshall Wittmann of the Heritage Foundation about the political implications of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's offer to President Clinton: increase the minimum wage in exchange for a cut in business taxes.

NPR Patricia Neighmond reports on a matchbook size electrical device which can be implanted under the skin of people who suffer from extreme pain. Electrical stimulation from the device can help block the transmission of pain from the nervous system to the brain. It offers relief to people who have reflex sympathetic dystrophy, the syndrome known as RSD.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on some entrepreneurs who expect major innovations in the way electricity is generated. One venture capital firm, Nth Power, is investing in new technologies that may produce more efficient, cleaner energy. Founders Maurice Gunderson and Nancy Floyd believe that deregulation of electrical utilities has great potential for everything from hydrogen fuel cells, to natural gas refrigerators that can cool food and heat houses at the same time.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that officials at the Hanford Nuclear Reservoir want to re-activate one of the site's decommissioned reactors despite public outrage.

NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the newest developments in research on narcolepsy.

Peter Kenyon of NPR News, reports from Erie, Pennsylvania that Texas Governor George W. Bush is defending his state's record in providing health insurance for children. A federal judge in Texas has ordered the state to improve its enrollment in a healthcare program for poor children. Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has been pressing the Republican candidate for details of his health care plan for the nation. But Governor Bush is not being rushed. He says he'll have details of the plan after the Labor Day holiday. He goes on to criticize the Clinton-Gore administration for being ineffective on this issue for the past seven years.

Commentator David Weinberger recently returned from four days in Beijing, China. He says as a Westerner it was a truly foreign experience, but there's one place he felt completely at home: on the Internet.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports from Seattle on the campaign trail, where protests and counterprotests by supporters of Democrat Al Gore and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader are overshadowing Gore's efforts to emphasize his health care policy.

Jacki talks to law professor Jonathan Turley about the decision yesterday that prevented Wen Ho Lee from being released on bail. Lee has been charged with mishandling information and has spent the last several months in solitary confinement without bail. Turley says that despite yesterday's decision, the government's case is looking increasingly shaky.