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While the Arkansas governor's mansion is being renovated, the governor's family will be residing in a triple-wide mobile home on the mansion grounds. Robert talks to Janet Huckabee, First Lady of Arkansas, about her family's new accommodations.

For a respected physicist to suggest that it's possible for something to travel faster than light, is rather like a geologist declaring that the earth is flat. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, tomorrows issue of the prestigious journal Nature contains a paper that claims exactly that.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator Frank Deford about his book The Best of Frank Deford: I'm Just Getting Started. The book reflects on the larger world of American culture through sports.

Aileen Leblanc of member station WYSO reports on a controversy surrounding an outdoor drama that is performed every summer in Ohio. Tecumseh is about a Shawnee warrior chief's struggle to protect his land from white settlers, but critics say the play is marred by historical inaccuracies.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that the lower house of the Russian parliament, or Duma, approved legislation today giving the president more control over the country's powerful regional governors. Also today, tycoon Boris Berezovsky officially quit the Duma, to protest Kremlin moves to rein in the governors and big business.

NPR's Ted Clark speaks with ATC host Linda Wertheimer about the summit at Camp David, where Israeli and Palestinian leaders are still working on a peace deal. President Clinton has delayed his trip to Japan by a day to stay with the talks.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes that, with all the attention being paid to the Camp David negotiations, Washington may be overlooking a burgeoning alliance among foes of U.S. missile defense.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the death of Senator Paul Coverdell. The only Georgia Republican senator to ever win re-election, Coverdell is almost certain to be succeeded by a Democrat; Governor Roy Barnes (D) is expected to make his decision shortly. But many Republican House members may try to run in the November special election, which could result in major changes in the state's congressional delegation.

Robert talks with Frank Phillips, reporter for the Boston Globe, about Jack E. Robinson, who is running on the Republican ticket against Senator Edward Kennedy. Robinson is so controversial that not even his own party is supporting him.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that gasoline prices in the Midwest have dropped dramatically this month. In June, prices in Chicago and throughout the Midwest skyrocketed past $2 per gallon. Now, costs have dropped to as low as $1.27 in Indiana, and other states are close behind. Last month's rise led to investigations into claims of price fixing and the 0suspensions of gas taxes in several states. Oil producers attribute the drop in gas prices to fixing a pipeline problem that had limited its ability to deliver the fuel.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Catherine Guilyardi about the actions of angry textile workers in France who poured sulfuric acid into the Meuse river near the Belgian border as part of a labor dispute. The workers were protesting the closing of a textile factory in the economically depressed region of northeastern France.

In 1995 Filmmaker Henry Corra gave his autistic son, George, a video camera. Henry used the video his son shot and, along with co-filmmaker Grahame Weinbren, documented the life of his son -- the resulting film is called George, and it airs on HBO tomorrow and Sunday. Linda talks with Grahame Weinbren and Henry and George Corra about the making of the film and how it has affected their lives.