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SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS SCIENCE EDITOR PAUL RAEBURN ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "THE LAST HARVEST: THE GENETIC GAMBLE THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY AMERICAN AGRICULTURE" (PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER), WHERE HE STATES THAT HUMANS HAVE NOT LEARNED FROM IRELAND'S GREAT POTATO FAMINE WHICH BEGAN 150 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH...AND THAT NOT ONLY POTATOES GROWN ON AMERICA'S FARMLANDS ARE AT RISK.

NPR'S DAVID MOLPUS REPORTS ON OSEOLA (oh-see-OH-lah) McCARTY OF HATTIESBURG (HAT-eez-berg), MISSISSIPPI, WHO IS BEING HONORED TONIGHT AT A DINNER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MS. McCARTY, WHO DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL IN THE 6TH GRADE, IS FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS AT HER HOMETOWN UNIVERSITY WITH PREFERENCE GIVEN TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN FINANCIAL NEED...A GIFT OF AT LEAST 150-THOUSAND DOLLARS COMING FROM A WOMAN WHO SPENT 75 OF HER 86 YEARS CLEANING AND IRONING OTHER PEOPLES' CLOTHES.

Host Liane Hansen discusses the issue of orrupt police officers in L.A. and Philadelphia with Mark Bowden, a reporter or the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Joe Domanick, the author of the book, Protect and To Serve: The LAPD's Century Of War In the City Of Dreams."

Writer Mike Renfro explains that the essence of summertime in exas can be found in the lingering stillness that precedes an imminent hunderstorm.

Liane Hansen speaks to Gert-Jan Blom hairt-yawn blawm), bass player for the group the Beau (BOW) Hunks. He's o-producer of a new cd, "Celebration on the Planet Mars - A Tribute to aymond Scott" (Koch, catalog # KOC 3-7909-2). Scott's wacky compositions rom the 1930's inadvertantly found their way into soundtracks for many artoons.

Daniel talks to Steven Mufson, the Washington Post's correspondent in Beijing, about how the Chinese have been reacting to some of the latest developments in Sino-American relations.

As potential presidential candidates start to line up, voters will begin thinking once again about who will make the best leader for this country. Daniel talks with historian Michael Beschloss and Charles Cook, of the Cook Political Report, about what qualities the American public typically looks for in a leader. And whether those qualities are necessarily what it takes to be a good president.

Daniel talks to Nepeti Nicanor, the founder of New Namibia Books, the first independent publishing company in Namibia, and Jenny Davis - author of one of the books published by New Namibia Books. Davis' book is a collection of stories for children adapted from folktales told by the many ethnic groups in Namibia.

For the record, we play the sound of a barbershop quartet that won a recent singing competition.

Debate over the viability of the Legal Services Corporation will esume when Congress returns to the nation's capital in early September. This egal agency has provided attornies for the public in civil court cases since t's creation by Congress in 1974. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports on the various erceptions regarding the controversial program.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with James Lilley, a former U.S. mbassador to Beijing and chief American representative to Taiwan, about the ifficulties plaguing the political and economic relationship between the United tates and China.

Andrew Weil