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Noah Adams speaks with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the climax of the regular Major League Baseball season. Heading into the last weekend before the playoffs, some playoff slots remain to be settled. The season may need to be extended into next week to decide all the playoff pairings. One thing is certain: this season, teams with the biggest payrolls are not the only temas making it to the playoffs. That, and Fox TV's new 2-point-5-billion dollar contract with Major League Baseball for national broadcast rights should make next year's labor negotiations interesting.

Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush stopped in Saginaw, Michigan today and made energy policy his theme. Using a manufacturing and engineering center as his backdrop, he talked about the growing economy's need for growing fuel sources -- and the importance of keeping those sources politically and militarily secure. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that at this critical time in Yugoslavia, the United States has little influence over events there. For ten years, the U.S. government has focused on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Now, at a pivotal moment when Milosevic will either be forced out or consolidate his rule, the U.S. finds it has few options.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports on a thorny environmental case being heard next month by the U.S. Supreme Court. It involves the right of some Chicago suburbs to build a landfill on land that's being used by migratory birds. Some environmental activists warn that the court could use the case to gut the landmark Clean Water Act.

Three more world swimming records fell Sunday in Sydney, bringing to eight the number of records set in just the first two days of competition. NPR's Howard Berkes looks at why these Olympic games are producing faster and faster times in the water.

In Macedonia, a conflict resolution group Search for Common Ground has produced a television program aimed at teaching children about their counterparts from other ethnic groups. They say that according to a study they've just completed, the show is helping to change some children's negative and stereotyped attitudes. The program is called Nashe Maalo which means Our Neighborhood. Host Jacki Lyden spoke with Eran Fraenkel, executive director of Search for Common Ground in Macedonia.

Reporter Alex van Oss reports on a theater production in Arlington, Virginia that shines the spotlight on one of Dostoyevsky's lesser known qualities, his sense of humor. The play is called Someone Else's Wife and the Husband Under the Bed and is brought to life under the guidance of Russian director Yuri Kordonsky.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports from Sydney that five members of Romania's weightlifting team were reinstated at the Summer Olympics after a bizarre day of confusion over policy concerning drug tests. The athletes who did not fail any drug test were kicked out of the Olympics because two of their teammates tested positive.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on some unanswered questions from the Wen Ho Lee and Chinese espionage investigations. What is still unknown about the data Lee downloaded to tapes that are now missing? Was someone really spying for China, and is that person (or are those persons) still active?

NPR Entertainment Critic Bob Mondello reviews a new French film that looks at labor relations through the prism of family relations. It's called Human Resources.