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Commentator Reynolds Price reflects on his brief encounters with various celebrities from Orson Welles to Bob Dylan. He says he's had to change his approach to such "brushes with greatness."

NPR's Brian Naylor looks at what remains for Congress to do before it leaves for the August break. Topping the list are most of next year's spending bills, yet to pass both houses -- and President Clinton is threatening vetos unless more funding is allocated to the top programs on his agenda.

Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio reports on ESPN's new television series, The Great Outdoor Games. With events such as log rolling and bass fishing, ESPN turns its cameras to contests in which top competitors endorse chainsaws and fly fishing reels rather than athletic shoes and clothing lines.

NPR's John Ydstie visits a town in Ohio that suffered the loss of a big employer two years ago. Huffy Bicycles shut down operations and hundreds lost their jobs. Many suffered and are resentful, but surprisingly, some people are doing better and seeking new careers or enjoying a new lifestyle. A measure of how personal change results from economic change -- as the bicycle maker now imports bike parts from China. (12:30) Next, NPR's Rob Gifford goes to the town in China where Huffy Bicycles are now made. The U.S. National Labor Committee accuses this plant of horrific working conditions, but Gifford finds happy workers. Although the wages paid here vastly undercut those that were paid to Huffy workers in Celina, Ohio, the salaries are above average for China.

He's got sex appeal, Latino heritage, and his family hopes that will translate into political pizazz among Latinos and the young. NPR's Phillip Davis reports George P. Bush, the 20-something son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Mexican-American wife, is going on tour on behalf of George W.

Two participants of a training and planning session for demonstrations at next month's Democratic National Convention tell us about their experience. Lester and Summer are teenagers who attended the Youth Organizing Communities protest camp and attended workshops on imperialism, street theatre and politics. We hear their audio diary produced by Youth Radio.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that nvestigators are focusing on the engines of the Air France Concorde jet that crashed yesterday outside Paris, killing 113 people. One of the engines on the doomed supersonic jet was repaired just before the flight, but a company spokesman says it's too early to say whether that problem was responsible for the crash.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports Yasser Arafat returned home to a hero's welcome in Gaza where thousands of supporters took to the streets to praise the Palestinian leader for his refusal to compromise on key issues at the just-concluded Camp David summit.

Linda talks to Peter Duffey, a retired British Airways Concorde pilot, about emergency procedures when flying the Concorde, and his opinion of the possible causes of yesterday's crash.

For some insight into how the Arab world is responding to results of the Camp David talks, Robert talks with Hisham Melhem, Senior Correspondent for As-Safir, the major daily newspaper of Beirut and Washington correspondent for Radio Montecarlo, a French and Arab language broadcast service to the Middle East.