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NPR's Sarah Chayes reports that yesterday European Union transport ministers gathered at a meeting in Luxembourg to discuss the soaring oil prices. The high price of fuel, have unleashed a wave of protests that severely disrupted many of their countries.

Bill Cohen of Ohio Public Radio reports on a conference to discuss the problem of soaring natural gas prices. Yesterday, several of the country's largest producers, suppliers and regulators of natural gas took part in the one-day meeting in Columbus, Ohio to help governors develop plans for their own states.

Dave Thompson of North Dakota Public Radio reports that yesterday Democratic gubernatorial nominee Heidi Heitkamp announced that she has cancer. Despite her illness, Heitkamp will continue her campaign.

Aileen LeBlanc of member station WYSO reports from Xenia, Ohio, on a tornado that hit the city shortly after seven o'clock last night. The storm flattened buildings and knocked down power lines. One person was killed, and over a hundred were injured.

NPR's John Ydstie reports today is not the first time Al Gore has accused the oil industry of price-gouging. The vice-president first brought up the subject of oil industry profits when gas prices soared earlier this year. Ydstie reports there is scant evidence of oil company collusion, though, and the industry is probably just profiting from OPEC's success in driving up the price of oil.

Track and field gets underway at the Olympics Friday, with American sprinters Marion Jones and Maurice Greene competing in qualifying rounds. But the big track news was made OFF the track. As NPR's Howard Berkes reports, the mysterious French runner Marie-Jose Perec left Sydney a day before her first heat, claiming an intruder forced his way into her hotel room and threatened her. Perec, the defending Olympic champion in the 200 and 400 meters, avoided all public appearances in the weeks before the Games, communicating only through her Website.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Jakarta on the latest developments in the case against former Indonesian President Suharto. Today an Indonesian court ruled that the ex-dictator is unfit to stand trial, after an independent medical team found him too sick to face charges he embezzled millions in public funds. The decision has sparked angry protests in Jakarta.

Washington Post reporter Peter Baker is a journalist who co-wrote the story breaking the news about Monica Lewinsky. He's just written a book about that episode of the Clinton presidency, called The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton. He writes that for all the titillation about thongs and cigars, the story was not so much about sex as it was about power.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Dogmental (GM label), the new CD by the Andy Biskin Quintet.

Noah talks to Wendy Chavkin, MD, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association in New York City, about the likely availability of RU486 and which doctors will prescribe it.

At the Olympics in Sydney, the fabled American women's soccer team lost the gold medal game in overtime to Norway. Marion Jones easily won her second gold medal, in the 200 meter dash. Her win was widely anticipated. But as NPR's Howard Berkes reports, there was a major surprise in the men's 200 meters. Konstantinos Kenteris won the gold medal, becoming the first Greek ever win a sprint medal. It was the first time the US didn't take a medal in the event since 1928.

Republicans now have a slim majority of just six votes in the House of Representatives -- and all 435 seats are on the ballot in November. Democrats are hoping to become the majority if they can sweep the close races on the West Coast. One of the most closely watched of these contests is in California's fabled Silicon Valley, ground zero for the micro-chip and personal computer revolution. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.