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Host Renee Montagne talks to commentator John Feinstein about this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament, which begins today in New York.

Commentator Diana Nyad says she's not a fan of the way the U.S. selects its Olympic athletes.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that today, the New York Stock Exchange begins changing the way it lists the price of stocks. A few selected stocks will be shown in dollars and cents, rather than dollars and fractions. The exchange plans to have all share prices listed in dollars and cents by April.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Canadian reporter Hillary MacKenzie and Japanese reporter Yoichi Kato about the way they're covering the U.S. Presidential campaign. MacKenzie is Washington bureau chief for Southam News, Canada's largest news organization. Kato is political correspondent with the Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun.

During last day of his two-day visit to Nigeria, President Clinton was confronted with one of Africa's most desperate problems: the spread of infectious diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS. At a gathering of AIDS activists and health care workers, the president heard from Nigerians who have AIDS and from children whose parents who have died of the disease. NPR's Mike Shuster has more from Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks to reporter Sherry Devlin of the Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Montana, about fires that are still burning out of control in western states. Almost six million acres have already been blackened this summer, with another one-and-a-half million still burning.

This is a great weekend to be selling used furniture in Burlington, Vermont. About 12,000 college students flood the area this time of year, and like most students on a budget, they are looking for an affordable way to decorate rooms and shared houses. Host Jacki Lyden speaks to Todd Myers, co-owner of Myers New & Used Furniture, about the annual boom in furniture sales.

Koreans living in this country watched with mixed feelings earlier this month when South Korean families were briefly reunited with their North Korean relatives after 50 years. There are no diplomatic relations between communist North Korea and the United States, and currently U.S. the government does not offer assistance to Korean-Americans seeking reunification with their families. Host Jacki Lyden visits the Korean Central Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia, where she speaks to Koreans who hope the U.S. government will change its policy and begin assisting them in trying to locate their lost relatives.

Last week, the National Institutes of Health issued long-awaited guidelines that will allow scientists receiving federal funds to study stem cells taken from frozen embryos. The embryos used will only be those that are formed as a result of in-vitro fertilization, and are then abandoned at private clinics. Their use has been a deeply-contested issue. Host Jacki Lyden discusses the ethical concerns over this type of research with Dr. Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennyslvannia.

This summer the World Health Organization rated the French healthcare system best in the world. Instead of crowing, French researchers questioned the methodology of the WHO study. The high cost of the health system has plagued the French government for a decade. Still, as NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris, if you have the misfortune to get sick, France is a good place to be.