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Camp Be'chol Lashon is a sleep-away camp that is specifically for Jewish youths of color. The campers are encouraged to discuss race and identity against a backdrop of swimming and horseback riding.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen discusses the battle to keep print news alive in small-town America. Cullen runs Iowa's Storm Lake Times, along with his brother, the paper's publisher.

Signs marking California Historic Route 66 were being stolen almost as fast as they could be posted. Now the California Route 66 Association has a solution - stenciling the route number onto the pavement with paint. Robert talks with Maria Mutschler, treasurer of the California Route 66 Association.

The purchase "is the latest reprehensible choice from a company that has profited from addicting users to its deadly products," the American Lung Association said.

McEntire and members of her team were checking out a historical building in Atoka, Okla. They got trapped inside after its staircase collapsed and had to be rescued.

Rodrigo's spiky "good 4 u" isn't just a breakup song: It inserts her into a tradition of art, including one particularly beloved cult horror film, about the right of teenage girls to get angry.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Washington Post Reporter Howard Schneider, who's in Cairo, about the discussion President Clinton had with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak concerning the stalled Middle East Peace process. The U.S. hopes that President Mubarak can be persuaded to get other Arab leaders to agree to leave East Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.

Bill Rice of member station WCPN reports on an election for the Ohio Supreme Court that's raising concern about the effect of campaign money on judicial independence. Republicans and business groups are trying to defeat Justice Alice Robie Resnick, a Democrat, because they disapprove of her votes in two close decisions.

NPR's Scott Horsley examines the new "Bluetooth" radio link chip. The technology would allow everything from mainframe computers to cell phones communicate with each other via radio frequencies. And with such companies as IBM, Qualcomm and Microsoft backing it, Bluetooth could become an industry standard.