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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 John Ydstie reports Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave an upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy today. Greenspan told members of the Senate Banking Committee the economy shows signs of slowing to a more sustainable pace and that reduces the risk of accelerating inflation. Stock and bond markets both rallied on the suggestion that Fed might leave interest rates alone when it meets next in August.

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.

Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, who in 2018 became the first openly gay man ever elected governor in the U.S., wed his longtime partner on Wednesday.

Robert talks with Hanoch "Herbie" Smith, an Israeli pollster and analyst in Jerusalem, about public opinion among Israelis about the Camp David talks.

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.

Commentator Jeanne Brennan says that it's more important to help students and teachers during the school year so that they don't need summer school to catch up.

People who do well on one kind of mental test tend to do well on other tests, as well. This has led scientists to investigate a quality of the mind that's known as "general intelligence." General intelligence is just one aspect of smarts and savvy, but it is the part that gets assessed by tests like IQ tests. Now, researchers report that they have localized general intelligence to one part of the brain. NPR's Richard Harris reports on this contentious finding.

Linda talks to NPR's Howard Berkes about the indictment of two officials who had headed Salt Lake City's Olympic Committee. The two are being charged with conspiracy, racketeering and mail and wire fraud.