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Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Eric Weiner about the upcoming G-8 summit on world economy in Okinawa, Japan. Leaders from around the world gather for the three-day summit which opens tomorrow, to discuss how to ease the burden of debt and poverty of the world's poorest countries.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on a toxic oil spill that has poisoned a river in southwest Brazil, threatening wildlife and potentially ruining one of Brazil's most famous natural wonders, the Iguazu Falls.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports the Greek National Theater will perform Oedipus Rex tonight at the Coliseum in Rome. It's the first public performance at the Coliseum in 1,500 years.

The House of Representatives today approved a bill that would raise the amount that certain savers can contribute to their tax-deferred retirement accounts. The current annual limit on these contributions is $2,000 but the new legislation, if passed by the Senate and signed by President Clinton, would raise that limit to $5,000. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

JOYCE JOHNSON CONTINUED.Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews –The Complete Blue Note Horace Parlan Sessions— (Mosaic).12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air writer JOYCE JOHNSON talks about her relationship with Beat Icon Jack Kerouac. JOHNSON met Kerouac in 1957, 9 months before Kerouacs novel –On The Road— was published. JOHNSONs new book –Door Wide Open,— includes letters she and Kerouac wrote each other during their affair. Thats coming up on the next Fresh Air.

Alex Van Oss reports on a new exhibition featuring the work of Romain Brooks, a bohemian painter who worked in Paris in the early twentieth century. Though she painted seemingly traditional society portraits, she painted them so passionately that she's been called the Thief of Souls. The exhibition continues at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through September 24th.

NPR Business reporter Steve Krueger reports on the latest developments on the dispute between the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television & Radio Actors. Today, both sides are scheduled to meet with federal mediators in New York in a new bid to resume contract talks.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on regional reaction to the protracted Middle East peace negotiations at Camp David, Maryland.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a new discovery in the insect world... a wasp that manages to interfere with a spider's web-building instinct for it's own personal benefit.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports a judge in Los Angeles has ruled the city's plan to keep convention protesters away from the Staples Center violates the first amendment because it would force those protesting to go more than two football fields away from the site. City planners are now trying to come up with a new plan that satisfies both the convention and protesters.