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NPR's Ted Clark reports the Camp David summit has entered its crucial final stages, with no firm word on whether an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal can be sealed before President Clinton's scheduled departure for Japan early Wednesday.

NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that even young men need to worry about their cholesterol levels. A study in this week's Journal of The American Medical Association finds that men who had high cholesterol in their 20s and 30s were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease later in life.

Palestinian human rights groups are calling for an international boycott of Burger King. They're angry that the company has maintained a franchise in a West Bank Jewish settlement -- one Burger King officials promised last year they would close. Protesters charge by maintaining the restaurant in an area populated by Israeli Jews, the company is tacitly endorsing Israeli claims to the land. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

Dan Tritle from Member Station WNAN on Nantucket reports that tomorrow morning, a Boston woman and a blind Australian man hope to become the first to swim from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket. The islands are off the Massachusetts coast, in often turbulent Atlantic waters.

Massachussetts has long been one of the most generous states for students with special needs. A 26-year old law has required school districts to give students the "maximum feasible benefits" to keep them on track in public schools. But lawmakers have recently limited those services, and that has parents of special needs kids worried. From Member Station WBUR, Toni Randolph reports.

Today in Harrison, New Jersey, producers of the HBO television series The Sopranos held a casting call for anyone and everyone interested in being an extra on the hit show. Ill-equiped to handle the thousands of hopefuls that showed up, HBO called off the search before many people had a chance to be seen. Host David Wright talks to a few of the disgruntled Sopranos fans.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the difficulties in resolving the issue of control over Jerusalem in the middle east peace process.

Liane talks with NPR's Sarah Chayes from the streets of Paris about today's finish of the Tour de France bike race. American cyclist Lance Armstrong is poised to win his second straight title.

A small Mediterranean island comes alive when its fishermen pit their strength against their migrating prey, the bluefin tuna. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli went out to sea to witness this stunning ritual, called the Mattanza.

Tamara Keith reports from San Francisco on the annual competition among cable car operators to pick the best bell ringer.