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A new magazine arrives on-line today, after a few false starts. Failure magazine is, as its title implies, about failure: battles lost, sports blunders, products that didn't catch on. The fact that someone would even come up with an idea for such a magazine suggests that, in an age when dot-coms come and go like buses, the very notion of failure may not have the stigma it once did when Willie Loman first walked the boards. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports. (7:30) For more information, visit http://failuremag.com

NPR's Ted Clark reports the Camp David summit is now in its seventh day, and US officials say the pace of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has accelerated. In an interview published Monday, President Clinton said he was more optimistic than when the summit began, but added that he does not know if an agreement is possible.

Modest Mouse is the name of a band from Issaquah, Washington. They've had a few releases on independent music labels, but their first album for a major company has just been released. The CD is called The Moon and Antarctica. Elyssa Gardner has our review.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on today's Senate debate over a bill that would give a tax break to some married couples. Sponsors of the measure say it fixes a discrepancy that causes some married people to pay more income tax than they would if they were filing as singles. Senators opposed to the bill say it also gives a tax cut to couples who don't pay the so-called marriage penalty, but in fact pay less filing jointly than they would singly.

To bring us up to date on the state of the Presidential race, Robert Siegel speaks with David Brooks, Senior Editor at the Weekly Standard, and E.J. Dionne, columnist for the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. They talk about the stage of the race now drawing to a close -- the time in-between the primaries and the party conventions, and what to expect as the parties convene in a few weeks.

The American Medical Association's recent moves on Capitol Hill -- like its advertising campaign targeting vulnerable Republican senate seats -- have demonstrated little love for the Republicans on whom they once relied. NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the growing rift between the AMA and the GOP.

Phil Mercer reports from Suva, on the latest developments in Fiji. George Speight, the rebel leader who led a two-month hostage crisis that paralyzed the ethnically divided nation, promised further unrest after he rejected a Cabinet named by Fiji's new president.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Yuli Tamir, Israel's Minister for Immigrant Absorption, about the Israeli negotiating position at the current peace talks at Camp David. She says an agreement is possible, if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is as committed to peace as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

In the first part of a three part series on Jerusalem, NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that though Israeli officials insist on an undivided Jerusalem as their "eternal capital," Jerusalem remains very much a divided city. In mostly Arab East Jerusalem, Israeli authority serves mostly Israelis. The city's Muslims have their own institutions.

Performances continue and we hear from TOM RIIS who compiled and edited a book containing the complete score of In Dahomey. RIIS directs the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado and is the author of Just Before Jazz.PERFORMANCES CONTINUED.Conductor MAURICE PERESS. He specializes in reconstructing historic American concerts. Hes worked with Ellington and Bernstein, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Living With American Music: Dvorak to Duke Ellington.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . our encore presentation of our American popular song series continues, with the music of Will Marion Cook, the principal composer of the 1903 Broadway musical In Dahomey, the first Broadway show written and performed by African Americans. Join us for the next Fresh Air.