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Writer Lynn Nygren leaves today on what she and her family hope will be a five year cruise around the world. They are sailing in their sixty-foot sloop, Roxanne. She feels a queasy mix of confidence, excitement, and fear.

Linda talks with E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the Weekly Standard about the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and George W. Bush. Political wisdom holds that the candidate who leads on Labor Day wins the race -- but this year the race is too close to call.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on a new study in the journal Pediatrics which focuses on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The study focused on the frequency of the condition among children and how ADHD is being treated.

Commentator Frank Deford weighs in with his feelings on prayer at high school football games.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on how this session of Congress is winding down. Legislation that was expected to pass earlier this year including a patient's bill of rights and a prescription drug benefit for seniors seem to have lost momentum. But a minimum wage increase and the China Trade bill still have a chance at becoming laws.

Host Bob Edwards talks with James Stewart, about the federal case against a former doctor who goes on trial today on charges of murdering three patients at a veterans hospital in New York State in 1993. The defendant, Michael Swango, is the subject of Stewart's book, Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder. (3:40) Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder is published by Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 06848

Host Bob Edwards talks to Paul Eisenstein about the high tech options available on this year's new car models. Eisenstein is publisher of The Car Connection dot com.

NPR's Joshua Levs reports on the older Olympian. The average age of an athlete on this year's U.S. team is around 28, and several high-profile competitors are in their mid to late 30's. Experts say changes in sports science, including training and nutrition, are helping to push back what scientists have long considered the age of peak performance.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Robert Breunig, Executive Director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin about the impact of the on-going drought in Central Texas

Anne Garrels talks with All Things Considered's Noah Adams about the U.N. Millennium Summit, which is being called the largest gathering of world leaders in history. President Clinton addressed the summit today, delivering an impassioned appeal for peace in the Middle East. The president was holding separate meetings later with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, hoping to revive prospects for a final peace agreement.