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NPR's Ted Clark previews the Camp David Summit between Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which begins today, under the auspices of President Clinton. The objective is to resolve the seemingly intractable problems that stand in the way of a permanent peace agreement between the Israeli and Palestinian people.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Matt Ridley, a science writer for the London Telegraph and the author of the book Genome, about what the implications are for knowing how to map the entire human genome.

In the second installment of our series on national missile defense, NPR's Mike Shuster examines some of the technical problems scientists would have to overcome, in order to make a missile defense system operational and effective.

Host Bob Edwards talks to John Bogle a personal finance pioneer and founder of the Vanguard Group, about mutual funds. Bogle criticizes the management practices of mutual funds and provides advise for consumers who are interested in investing in these funds.

Commentator Matt Miller says, he has an idea that will save Television executives from airing boring programs and serve a societal purpose. If death penalty fans consider capital punishment to be a deterrent, he says, airing executions should persuade people not to kill one another.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Hirsch Goodman of the Jerusalem Report about Prime Minister Ehud Barak's political problems at home, in trying to negotiate with the Palestinians. Any transfer of land from Israel to the Palestinians would require the approval of Israel's Knesset, and Barak is in a relatively weak position with regard to that parliamentary body.

KERN INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCES CONTINUED.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . our encore presentations of our American popular song series continues, with the early theatre songs of Jerome Kern, the songs he wrote before such hits as smoke gets in your eyes, and the way you look tonight. Join us for the next Fresh Air.

In the second report on the current Supreme Court, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on a number of decisions the Supreme Court reached this term. The justices were divided along ideological lines, with the conservative block dominating for most of the decisions. Many of the rulings though, concerned limiting federal power, striking down more federal laws than upheld. The decisions upheld tended to be earlier liberal Supreme Court rulings, such as when they reaffirmed Miranda.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russian authorities are investigating several business tycoons for crimes ranging from tax evasion to embezzlements. Some see this as the beginning of a long-needed crackdown on the so-called oligarchs, moguls who have had cozy ties with the Kremlin. Other Russians worry these cases could be politically motivated.

50 years ago this month a rag tag team of soccer enthusiasts from the United States went to Brazil to participate in the World Cup Soccer Tournament. They played a very strong, very self-assured English team and won. Scott speaks about this game with Peter Chapman, reporter for the Financial Times of London and author of the new book The Goalkeeper's History of Britain. (Fourth Estate Press, UK)