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NPR's Mike Shuster reports that ten years after the end of the Iraq war, the UN is geared to try to resume a new round of arms inspections, with a new organization and a new director. But, so far, Iraq is not cooperating. Iraq says the previous arms inspections that ended in 1998 had revealed all there was to reveal.

The Canadian Navy has boarded an American-owned ship that was contracted to carry Canadian military equipment back from a Kosovo peacekeeping mission. The ship has been circling in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, refusing to return the tanks, weapons, and other cargo until a financial dispute is worked out with a middleman. Linda talks to Natalie Clancy, a national reporter for CBC Television, in Halifax, Canada, about the situation.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Last night, Texas Governor George W. Bush accepted the GOP nomination. In his acceptance speech, Bush told delegates that he'll work for better education, stronger Social Security and Medicare, lower tax rates, a stronger military. He accused the Clinton-Gore administration of squandering the opportunities presented by the good economic times and the huge government surpluses.

NPR's Renee Montagne profiles writer Thomas Lynch. He's an award winning essayist and poet ...and he leads a double life. Lynch also is the proprietor of Lynch and Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (8:40) The name of the book mentioned Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch is published by W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930

As more than 70 fires burn across the west, fire managers are scrambling to deploy enough personnel to contain and fight the blazes. In Central Idaho, 500 army troops from Ft. Hood Texas are receiving some basic fire training as they prepare to join the 17,000 civilian firefighters in the west. NPR's Mark Roberts reports from McCall, Idaho.

Nick Wood reports from the town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, that NATO-led peacekeepers seized control of the dilapidated Trepca mining complex today, prompting angry protests from local Serbs. The United Nations administration in the province said it was closing the mines as a health measure, because the Trepca smelters were spewing out toxic fumes. The head of the UN administration, Bernard Kouchner, said an international consortium plans to renovate the mines and eventually reopen the facility.

In celebration of Mexico's Independence Day, many people will eat the green, white and red dish of stuffed peppers in walnut sauce. Noted chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich is among them.

Phil Ittner reports from Moscow that the Russian navy is frantically trying to save more than 100 sailors trapped on board a submarine lying on the bottom of the Barents Sea in Russia's arctic north. The boat fell 480 feet to the sea floor Sunday, during naval exercises. A spokesman for the Russian navy's general staff said the accident could have been caused by a collision with a foreign submarine, although he gave no evidence for this.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports once verdant Kenya is suffering from a three-year drought. Unemployment is surging, as are hunger and poverty.

NPR's Mark Roberts provides an update on the fires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres in the western U.S. Firefighters are making headway on some of the blazes, but many others continue to rage out of control.

ATC Host Linda Wertheimer talks with a group of suburban women from Ohio about the presidential candidates -- George W. Bush and Al Gore. These middle class working women with children are considered a key part of the so-called swing vote. They also reside in a crucial state -- Ohio -- which remains up-for-grabs. The group includes: Gina Cronin, Anne Stevenson, Jennifer Lang and Kristi Gallup. The four ladies remain on the fence about whom to vote for -- as they find both candidates attractive for different reasons.

Chuck Quirmbach of Wisconsin Public Radio reports on the latest in dairy tech...the robotic milker. The automated system could boost milk production, as well as save a farmer's aching body from the demands of twice-a-day milkings.