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A Florida jury today ordered Walt Disney to pay $240 million in damages to two businessmen who alleged the company stole their idea for a sports complex. Disney denied using anyone else's idea for the Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World in Orlando. But the six-member jury found the company guilty of fraud, theft of trade secrets and breaking a confidential relationship. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that the tragedies of the gulag archipelago still haunt the Siberian mining city of Norilsk. Stalin deported prisoners to this frozen region in Russia's far north to mine some of the world's richest deposits of nickel, palladium and platinum. Today, construction crews plough up miners' bones from mass graves in the industrial wasteland.

Scott speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is covering Al Gore's presidential campaign as he makes his way to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles.

Scott speaks with Jim Nayder, host of the radio feature The Annoying Music Show, about music for weddings.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks Tom Santaniello, who at 17, is the youngest delegate attending the Democratic Convention. Santaniello has been involved in politics in his home state of South Carolina since he was an 8th grader, just four years ago. As a class assignment, he had to write to someone famous he admired. While others wrote to sports heroes, he wrote to Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC). Since then, he's been volunteering on campaigns, and has attended state party conventions.

The Chinese government also restricted private tutoring in an effort to even the playing field among students.

This week marks the 25th anniversary of Robert Altman's film Nashville. Altman discusses his film career with Jacki Lyden. The director of M*A*S*H and The Player has been nominated for Academy Awards four times.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with host Jacki Lyden about Vice President Al Gore's recent visit to Silent Spring author Rachel Carson's estate. Gore, a long-time crusader for a clean environment, spent time at the author's estate, and said her book helped to get him interested in environmentalism.

NPR's Aaron Schacter reports that as the Democrats prepare to open their convention this Monday, groups of activists are holding their own conventions. But unlike the multi-million dollar affair taking place at Staples Center, this group of activists decry the influence of money in politics - and the two-party system itself.

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look back at the life and career of actress Loretta Young. Young, who won an Oscar Award in 1947 for her role in The Farmer's Daughter, died today of ovarian cancer.