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NPR's Ted Clark reports on the Camp David peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. President Clinton met with each leader separately yesterday, then brought both delegations together for a half-hour discussion. So far, all parties have agreed to a news blackout concerning the talks, and no official deadline has been set to end the summit.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that a new study has renewed concerns about the effects mercury may have on human development. The study, conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, states that even trace amounts of the metal may cause learning disabilities in children.

Commentator Frank Deford talks about the decision by the body that governs world soccer, to hold the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, instead of South Africa. He says the decision by the executive committee of FIFA was wrong.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Bioethicist Arthur Caplan about the suspension of all federally funded clinical trials involving humans at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Tulsa. The government said researchers at the medical college and a university oversight board, repeatedly violated federal regulations and endangered patients in a cancer study. Arthur Caplan is Director of the Center of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the Russian launch today of a component for the International Space Station. The service module contributed by the Russians has been delayed by financial problems, which concerned some of the other countries working on the project -- including the United States.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Richard Knox about findings presented yesterday at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. Studies from several countries have shown that it is feasible to give anti-AIDS treatment to poor populations and to people with high levels of viral infection...but the cost of these treatments still poses a problem.

Commentator Paul Raeburn talks about why he thinks the national effort to find a cure for cancer hasn't had more success.

Commentator Jeffrey Tayler visited the village of Tarasawka in southeastern Belarus, near where the Chernobyl disaster occurred. There he meets one of the "old believers"-- a woman who has tried to maintain traditions extending back to the earliest days of the Russian Orthodox Church. In spite of all she has seen and experienced -- World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, civil war, Stalin's famine, World War II, the Chernobyl disaster, and the collapse of the Soviet Union -- it is the deathof her son she cannot forget.

Israeli Prime-Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat have joined President Clinton for peace talks at Camp David outside Washington DC. The two leaders left sharply divided public opinion at home -- Prime Minister Barak narrowly survived a no-confidence vote in the Parliament yesterday -- to attempt to make progress in their negotiations, which have been stalled for some time. Linda talks with NPR's Ted Clark who is at the media center near Camp David.

Kate Seelye in Damascus reports Bashar Al-Assad has, as expected, been chosen as Syria's new president. But his overwhelming victory in yesterday's referendum masks growing discontent in the country.