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Two participants of a training and planning session for demonstrations at next month's Democratic National Convention tell us about their experience. Lester and Summer are teenagers who attended the Youth Organizing Communities protest camp and attended workshops on imperialism, street theatre and politics. We hear their audio diary produced by Youth Radio.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the differing receptions that await Israel's Prime Minister Barak and Palestinian Leader Arafat, as they return today from the 15-day Summit at Camp David. The talks ended yesterday without an agreement. Arafat is being praised for standing firm on issues of importance to Palestinians, especially sovereignty over East Jerusalem. Barak returns home with an uncertain political future.

Staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer THOMAS GINSBERG. He's been covering how the city is preparing for the advent of protests during the Republican National Convention.12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Commentator Reynolds Price reflects on his brief encounters with various celebrities from Orson Welles to Bob Dylan. He says he's had to change his approach to such "brushes with greatness."

Linda talks to Peter Duffey, a retired British Airways Concorde pilot, about emergency procedures when flying the Concorde, and his opinion of the possible causes of yesterday's crash.

For some insight into how the Arab world is responding to results of the Camp David talks, Robert talks with Hisham Melhem, Senior Correspondent for As-Safir, the major daily newspaper of Beirut and Washington correspondent for Radio Montecarlo, a French and Arab language broadcast service to the Middle East.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that nvestigators are focusing on the engines of the Air France Concorde jet that crashed yesterday outside Paris, killing 113 people. One of the engines on the doomed supersonic jet was repaired just before the flight, but a company spokesman says it's too early to say whether that problem was responsible for the crash.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Kabul on the tedious and dangerous job of clearing explosive landmines in Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of mines were laid by the Soviet Union and Mujahadeen rebels. Those mines continue to maim and kill innocent Afghans.

Morning Edition's monthly series on the lives of Centenarians, One Hundred Years of Stories, features people from across the country who are one hundred years old--or older. In today's report producer Neenah Ellis talks with Margaret Byrd Rawson. During her lifetime, she pioneered research into dyslexia and continues to pursue her studies today despite the heavy burden of aging has placed on her.

Host Lynn Neary talks to Sherrie Tucker author of Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands of the 1940's and former trumpet player Clora Bryant. The book gives the history and first hand accounts of the "all-girl" big bands of the World War II era. (7:19) Sherrie Tucker's book, Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands of the 1940's is published by Duke Univ Pr (Txt); ISBN: 08223