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NPR's Jack Speer reports that the United State Olympic Committee has filed a lawsuit to stop Nabisco from promoting its Fig Newtons as a foodstuff for Olympians. Nabisco is not an official Olympic sponsor, and the USOC says its ad is unfair to the companies who've paid for the Olympic logo.

Host Steve Inskeep talks with James L.W.West III about Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (Edited by James L.W. West III/Cambridge University Press/2000). West says that F.Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio was a good novel, but that The Great Gatsby was a masterpiece -- and that Fitzgerald and his editor, the famed Maxwell Perkins, achieved this in the re-writing. West is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports the beatification of Pope Pius IX and Pope John XXIII happened at the Vatican among controversy and some allegations of anti-Semitism.

Los Angeles film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the German movie Aimee and Jaguar. It's based on a bestseller that tells the true love story of two women during the Second World War. One woman, a Jewish poet, masquerades as an Aryan to work at a Nazi paper and passes information to the underground. Her lover is a conventional German wife, whose philandering husband is fighting on the front. Turan says the movie captures the complexity of the characters and the terror of the times.

NPR's Peter Overby takes a look at vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman's Senate financial support from insurance and drug companies.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the increasing number of minorities, immigrants, and women who are signing up with unions. This demographic change is causing labor to re-think its strategies, and to figure out new ways to appeal to workers in the changing economy.

Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush proposed today that low-income seniors receive prescription drugs for free. Bush also said that all seniors ought to have a choice of plans that would pay up at one fourth of their drug costs, either by government program or through private insurance. Steve Inskeep, traveling with the Bush campaign, filed this report for NPR News.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on the Democrats' push to get their agenda acted on during these final weeks of the 106th Congress. Led by President Clinton, Senate Leader Tom Daschle and House Leader Richard Gephardt, the Democrats once again urged passage of an increase in the minimum wage and a patients' bill of rights. But both parties know that much of what is going on maybe less about legislation and more about gaining the electoral advantage as November 7 approaches.

Noah speaks with Craig Dremann, co-owner of the Redwood City Seed Company, about the Indian Military's claim that the world's hottest chili pepper is grown in Assam. He says it's the hottest domesticated pepper, but the hottest is a wild pepper called the Pepper Tepin, which grows in the dry desert mountains of Northern Mexico. His company sells old fashioned vegetable and herb seeds from all over the world, including Assam. For the chili seeds, he's had to developed his own testing system, which is similar to the scoville scale at the turn of the century.

Commentator Amy Dickinson tries to find out the recipe for the "secret" sauce that's powered the Methodist barbecue that's been held every summer weekend since 1949 in her hometown in upstate New York. The secret is: there is no secret after all. It's a myth.