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In his latest Play-by-Play commentary, NPR's Neal Conan profiles the Long Island Ducks of the Independent Atlantic League. Although the league has no affiliation with the Majors, fans are flocking to games. And the Ducks have become one of the most popular teams in the area.

Commentator Jeremy Rifkin says in the world where we measure nano-seconds and have every time-saving device imaginable, we still find ourselves without free time. Our culture is obsessed with efficiency. Rifkin is looking for a paradigm that replaces efficiency with sufficiency.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on the fourth day of the summit at Camp David, where the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks remain shrouded in secrecy. US spokesmen refuse to provide any substantive details of the meetings, nor will they say whether there has been any progress.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports thousands of Israeli settlers in the West Bank could face a tough decision if the ongoing summit talks at Camp David produce a final peace accord. Some of the settlers could well have to choose between finding new homes inside Israel or staying where they are, as Jews in an independent Palestinian state.

Chiles en nogada is a special dish in Mexico eaten around the month of September to celebrate Independence Day. This summer marked 200 years since its creation.

Noah talks to George Pully, a deacon at the Beulah Christian Church in Zebulon, North Carolina, about a bell that was stolen from his church. It was one of four antique bells stolen from churches and homes in the Raleigh, North Carolina area last weekend. The missing bells are all quite large, weighing between 50 and 1500 pounds.

Noah talks to NPR's Wade Goodwyn about the jury verdict in the Branch Davidian lawsuit against the government. Goodwyn reports an advisory jury today quickly decided the government bears no responsibility in the deaths of Branch Davidians at the standoff at their compound in Waco, Texas in 1993. A long seige of the building by federal authorities ended in a fire that killed eighty people. Government attorneys argued the Davidians intentionally set the fire themselves. A judge will make the final ruling in the case.

The Senate today passed a bill that would phase out the nation's inheritance tax over the next 10 years. The vote was 59 to 39 --- with 9 Democrats joining all but 4 of the Republicans in the majority. But the vote was not sufficient to override President Clinton's promised veto. before final passage, the Senate stripped all of its own amendments from the bill, so as to match the bill passed by the House and send the measure directly to the President's desk. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Reporter Marge Pitroff of member station WUWM in Milwaukee reports on the role of modern summer camps in the lives of today's kids, and the potential benefits and drawbacks of structured recreation.

The federal government's probe of the Olympic bribery scandal may be coming to an end. NPR's Howard Berkes has a report from Salt Lake City.