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Linda and Noah read from the All Things Considered listener mailbag, including reactions to commentator Carol Wasserman's Aug. 8 essay on the realities of aging.

Commentator Dave Bean, an English teacher at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, wonders what's happened to Ricky Valarde, a student flirting with gangs and dropping out of school, who gets excited about climbing. He presses Bean to take him and they work in exchange for the gear. Bean goes climbing with him one last time, and learns they can count on each other.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Long Beach, California, where the Reform Party convention has split in two. Supporters of Pat Buchanan control the convention hall. Yesterday they refused entrance to delegates for John Hagelin, so Hagelin's supporters moved to another site, at a theater next door. It now appears there will be two different Reform Party presidential candidates.

Host Howard Berkes talks to Paul Giannaris (JEE-AHN-air-ihs) owner of Andy's Bait International in Toronto about the newest thing in fishing chartreuse earthworms that smell like garlic.

Host Howard Berkes talks to Shannon Curfman, a 15 year-old blues prodigy from Fargo, North Dakota. Curfman fell in love with the blues at the age of 10 and has since been studying, writing, and performing all over the country. She says the raw aspect of blues is what appeals to her, and she expects to make music her career.

Tripp Sommer of member station K-L-C-C reports on the conditions that are sustaining the wildfires in the Western states. As the fires continue to burn out of control thousands of people are forced to evacuate their homes. Some of the fires are slowing their advance because of cooler temperatures.

Host Howard Berkes talks to Christine Haughney, reporter for the Washington Post about the decision of a New York Jury, that ordered former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic RAH'-doh-van KA'-ra-jich should pay 745 million dollars for soldiers' war-time atrocities.

NPR's Jim Zarroli examines the role the oil industry may play in this year's presidential election. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have spent considerable time working for big oil, and opponents are concerned that a Republican victory would mean petroleum companies could have an inside track to more favorable policies in Washington.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on one of Al Gore's closest advisors in his presidential campaign: his daughter, Karenna Gore-Schiff.

The new partnership, which also includes the U.K., is part of President Biden's focus on the threat from China.