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Commentator Jeff Steinbrink talks about the new miniature camera that transmits pictures of the digestive tract. The camera is swallowed in a capsule and offers views of the human digestive system never before seen.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that today, the New York Stock Exchange begins changing the way it lists the price of stocks. A few selected stocks will be shown in dollars and cents, rather than dollars and fractions. The exchange plans to have all share prices listed in dollars and cents by April.

Host Renee Montagne talks to reporter Steven Dudley in Bogota about the latest surge in violence in Colombia. Over the week-end, suspected members of Colombia's right-wing paramilitary forces killed at least 17 people in two separate massacres.

Jeff Brady of member station KOPB examines the changing roll of county fairs. As more and more ranchers and farmers turn to the Internet to purchase their supplies, fairs have shifted more toward education and entertainment to stay in business.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on how college professors are adapting their teaching methods to an Internet world. With course notes on-line and some professors even replacing themselves with CD-ROMs, the changes have been tougher on the teachers than the students.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on the record high prices for natural gas and how they're expected to raise heating bills this winter. Supplies of natural gas are the tightest they've been in years. High natural gas prices also drive electricity bills higher, in states such as California, where natural gas is used to generate electricity during periods of peak demand.

Host Renee Montagne talks to commentator John Feinstein about this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament, which begins today in New York.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Canadian reporter Hillary MacKenzie and Japanese reporter Yoichi Kato about the way they're covering the U.S. Presidential campaign. MacKenzie is Washington bureau chief for Southam News, Canada's largest news organization. Kato is political correspondent with the Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun.

Commentator Diana Nyad says she's not a fan of the way the U.S. selects its Olympic athletes.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Idaho on the start of a trial that could handicap the Aryan Nation. Two years ago, members attacked a woman and her son as they drove past the entrance to the hate group's compound. The Southern Poverty Law Center is trying to tie the actions of the groups' followers to their leader, Richard Butler.

During last day of his two-day visit to Nigeria, President Clinton was confronted with one of Africa's most desperate problems: the spread of infectious diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS. At a gathering of AIDS activists and health care workers, the president heard from Nigerians who have AIDS and from children whose parents who have died of the disease. NPR's Mike Shuster has more from Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

Last week, the National Institutes of Health issued long-awaited guidelines that will allow scientists receiving federal funds to study stem cells taken from frozen embryos. The embryos used will only be those that are formed as a result of in-vitro fertilization, and are then abandoned at private clinics. Their use has been a deeply-contested issue. Host Jacki Lyden discusses the ethical concerns over this type of research with Dr. Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennyslvannia.