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NPR's Renee Montagne reports on some of the issues being discussed at the National Conference on children's mental health. Montagne talks with one parent and a physician about coping with Attention Deficit Disorder.

NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr review the week's news.

Scott with some thoughts on how the presidential debates should be run.

The first medals of the Sydney Olympics were handed out...The first gold medal was won by a relatively unknown American... But it's swimming that is attracting the most attention right now. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Scott gets a voice lesson from the Miamians Men's Chorus voice coach Gene Cokeroft.

Scott talks to Detroil blues singer Alberta Adams who recorded her first album at the age of 77.

This week a bill directing millions to poor rural communities by way of the timber industry passed. Kristian Foden-Vencil of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

This week Chase Manhattan Corporation announced it would merge with J.P. Morgan and Company. Although the new company will be called J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, the merger closes a chapter on the storied history of the 150-year old Morgan bank. Scott speaks with Fortune Magazine's editor-at-large Joe Nocera about the end of banks as we know them.

Scott speaks with the "Doyenne of Dirt," Ketzel Levine, about her new book: Plant This, published by Sasquatch Books.

It was 204 years ago this week that America's first president announced to the nation he would not seek a third term in office. George Washington had entered office a war hero but had become discouraged by newspaper attacks on his character. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington biographer Willard Sterne Randall about how Washington's departure paved the way for a two-party system and for a tradition of attacks on character.