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Commentator Nick Gillespie says all the concern this week about the marketing of violence flies in the face of reports showing a decline in violent crime by youth and a decline in birthrates among teens. If rap music, TV and movies are such a danger to our kids, Gillespie asks, then how can their behavior be improving?

Host Bob Edwards talks with Andrew Bernard, an associate business professor at Dartmouth, about his predictions for which country will take home the most Olympic medals. Bernard bases his results on each country's population, wealth and past Olympic performances. He says the US will win 97 medals, followed by Germany with 63 and Russia with 59.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on today's meeting between India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajapayee and President Clinton. The meeting is expected to improve U.S.-Indian relations, are tackling a main point of disagreement- India's nuclear weapons policies.

In the second of a two part interview, Host Bob Edwards talks with Martin Goldsmith former host of NPR's Performance Today, about his book The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany. The book recounts the life of Goldsmith's parents, who were members of the all-Jewish Kulturbund orchestras in Frankfurt and Berlin in Nazi Germany. Rosemarie Gumpert played viola; Gunther Goldschmidt played flute. (7:47) The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith is published by John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 04713

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that George W. Bush and Al Gore have agreed on a series of debates. The two candidates both endorsed a plan presented by the b-partisan commission on presidential debates earlier this year. But third party candidates may find it difficult to be included...unless they show at least a 15-percent support rate nationally, they will not be invited to participate.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the latest fund-raising investigation by the Justice Department that may have implications for the Gore campaign. The New York Times reported this morning of a 1995 discussion in which Vice President Gore was asked to make a fundraising call to a Texas trial lawyer -- around the time President Clinton was preparing to veto GOP-passed tort reform legislation that would limit lawsuit awards. The White House says Gore never made the call, but documents show a marked increase in contributions to the Democratic Party by the lawyer and his law firm since Mr. Clinton vetoed the bill. George W. Bush, campaigning in California, said Gore "may have crossed a serious line" with his actions.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on political plans to help Medicare recipients pay for prescription drugs. The new Republican proposal would have states use federal money to help low-income seniors.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on one of the nation's biggest and most successful stores that sells vintage clothing.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that despite the taint of drugs and Olympic scandals, the 2000 Summer games have begun and the opening ceremonies is reflecting on positive aspects of the Olympics. Athletes from North and South Korea marched today under one unification banner.

Eric Roy of member station KCRW reports on the raising of the S. S. Catalina. The former pleasure cruiser has become a shipwreck tourist spot in Mexico, but now preservationists are planning to repair it and return it to California.