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Linda talks with Mike Shatzkin, CEO and founder of the Idea Logical Company. Shatzkin acts as a consultant to publishing companies. He talks about the message author Stephen King is sending to publishers by bypassing them, and making his book available online.

Commentator Martha Ann Overland lives in India, and takes her kids to the US Embassy Club swimming pool. She learns that the class and racial divisions that have become taboo on most American soil, are still openly practiced by Americans abroad.

NPR's Ted Clark reports from Camp David that the morning after the summit nearly collapsed, Israeli Prime Minister Barak and Palestinian leader Arafat and their delegations resumed talks today after a late start to catch up on sleep from the marathon talks that had been mediated by President Clinton. With Clinton flying off to Okinawa,. Secretary Albright will continue the mediating effort and talks are expected to continue at same level of intensity until the president returns Sunday or Monday.

A court in Mitrovica, Kosovo has freed a man whose arrest had been protested by thousands of Serbs. The BBC's Paul Wood has a report on the release of Dalibor Vukovic.

There's a poem about neutrinos that many physicists have tacked to their walls. It's by John Updike, and it's titled, Cosmic Gall. (1:00) Click here to read the poem

Plans for a World War Two monument on the National Mall in Washington, seem to be moving forward despite opposition from some groups (including some veterans). Those opposed say the design and location would clutter the National Mall; violate the integrity of the Lincoln Memorial and its' surroundings; and may even be illegal. Alex Van Oss reports.

It's taken a quarter century of watching and waiting, but physicists have finally caught up with an elementary particle called the tau neutrino. These elusive subatomic particles are one of the fundamental bits that make up the matter of the universe. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports scientists at the Fermi National Accellerator Laboratory near Chicago found direct evidence of the particle, which had been theorized, but never proven, to exist.

Amazon.com just turned five years old and the company may have reached a pivotal moment. As NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports, the Internet pioneer has experienced phenomenal growth, gaining some 20-million customers. But it has piled up lots of debt, is struggling to control its massive inventory, and still hasn't earned a dime. Some analysts say Amazon could run out of cash as early as next year. Amazon boosters disagree and insist the company is on the path to profitability.

Banning Eyre reviews the CD Gem Tones, Saxophone Supreme South Indian Style, by Kadri Gopalnath. Gopalnath heard a British marching band when he was an teenager, growing up in India. He loved the sound of the saxophone so much that he began to play it. Although the sax was not part of the South Indian classical music tradition, he tried to make the instrument fit in. Now, with a few minor changes in the set up of the sax he plays, he has been able to gain wide acceptance in the tradition for his innovation. (3:45) The CD is Gem Tones: Saxophone Supreme, South Indian Style by Kadri Gopalnath. It's on Globestyle Records, #CDORBD 097. Contact: info@amc.org.uk

Noah checks in for the third time with Frankie Andreau, a racer with the US Postal Service Cycling team at the Tour De France. Today's stage was a 36-mile time trial that began in Freiburg, Germany. US Postal Service racer Lance Armstrong placed first today. It's also the first time he won a stage in this year's race. Armstrong and his team, are expected to win the Tour de France on Sunday in Paris.