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cott talks with Paula Wheeler who is organizing the first annual North American Wife Carrying contest in Bethel, Maine. More information on this event is available at www.wifecarrying.com.

Scott reads mail from listeners.

Venus Williams beat defending champion Lindsay Davenport on Centre Court at Wimbledon today, to become the first black female to win there since 1958. Host Jacki Lyden talks to Robin Roberts of ABC News and ESPN about Venus' game and the significance of her win to young black athletes. Tomorrow, Williams joins younger sister Serena in Wimbledon's Doubles Championship match. Jacki also talks to 27 year-old Carla Perona of Compton, California, about her memories of watching the Williams sisters learn their game on the city's public courts.

Some Israelis and Palestinians aren't waiting for the end of peace talks to resolve their differences - they're finding common ground through shopping. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

The new hi-tech industry is changing the much revered music scene in Austin, Texas. NPR's John Burnett reports.

Scott speaks with squirrel lover Greg Bassett.

Liane talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the future of the US national missile defense system, in the aftermath of Friday night's test failure. Shuster says the latest failure may delay, but not ultimately derail, the deployment of the system.

Liane visits the National Institutes of Health, and talks with Dr. Alan Guttmacher of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Guttmacher tells Liane what the discovery of the genome map will mean for the future.

Liane speaks with author and regular Weekend Edition essayist Tim Brookes about his book A Hell of a Place To Lose a Cow: An American Hitchhiking Odyssey (National Geographic). In 1998 Brookes retraced the steps of a hitchhiking journey he first undertook in 1973 aged 20, shortly after he arrived in the United States from England.

NPR's Jeffrey Dvorkin recently attended a reunion of his Canadian summer camp group from 1961, and reports on what a difference 39 years makes.