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Host Bob Edwards talks to reporter Barnaby Phillips about the recurring pipeline explosions in Nigeria, in which hundreds of people have died.

Commentator Mary Swander bought an abandoned Amish schoolhouse and turned it into a home. When the students returned for a reunion, she found it served as common ground between them.

Tim Crowley of North Carolina Public Radio reports North Carolina like several other states is rethinking the effectiveness of private prisons. The state department of corrections recently cancelled a contract with the private Corrections Corporation of America allowing the company to run two medium security prisons. State officials say they were concerned with the quality of staff CCA provided. The company blames its staffing problems on the rural setting of the prisons and says it didn't mismanage the state's prisons.

Robert talks with Robert Reischauer, President of the Urban Institute in Washington D.C., about the way the government makes its surplus projections. He says it's tricky to agree on a certain number assumption to be used in making calculations. One assumption is based on changing demographics, and the other is based on projections for the economy.

Orla Guerin of the BBC reports on a United Nations effort to raise money to restore the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Coyote Ugly. He says it's not likely to win any awards but is a perfectly fun summer movie.

In addition to the Republican National Convention, Philadelphia also hosted the 2000 National Youth convention this week. Youth Radio reporters Amit Paley and Megan Williams attended. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader addressed the gathering of young people. But delegates were disappointed that the Republican nominee did not. Issues at the convention included funding for education and drug rehabilitation.

Thousands of delegates and journalists pulled out of Philadelphia today, ending a week-long siege that accompanied the Republican National Convention. They leave with a different impression of the place, which calls itself the city that loves you back. It seems the city also wants the burden and bounty of the national convention back -- the sooner the better. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that ten years after the end of the Iraq war, the UN is geared to try to resume a new round of arms inspections, with a new organization and a new director. But, so far, Iraq is not cooperating. Iraq says the previous arms inspections that ended in 1998 had revealed all there was to reveal.

The Canadian Navy has boarded an American-owned ship that was contracted to carry Canadian military equipment back from a Kosovo peacekeeping mission. The ship has been circling in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, refusing to return the tanks, weapons, and other cargo until a financial dispute is worked out with a middleman. Linda talks to Natalie Clancy, a national reporter for CBC Television, in Halifax, Canada, about the situation.