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NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the growing business of sex slaves in Nepal. Each year approximately twenty-thousand young girls are sold into slavery in brothels of New Delhi, Bombay and other Indian cities. One woman has established an organization to put an end to the slave trade in spite of threats from traffickers.

Commentator Nick Gillespie says all the concern this week about the marketing of violence flies in the face of reports showing a decline in violent crime by youth and a decline in birthrates among teens. If rap music, TV and movies are such a danger to our kids, Gillespie asks, then how can their behavior be improving?

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the latest fund-raising investigation by the Justice Department that may have implications for the Gore campaign. The New York Times reported this morning of a 1995 discussion in which Vice President Gore was asked to make a fundraising call to a Texas trial lawyer -- around the time President Clinton was preparing to veto GOP-passed tort reform legislation that would limit lawsuit awards. The White House says Gore never made the call, but documents show a marked increase in contributions to the Democratic Party by the lawyer and his law firm since Mr. Clinton vetoed the bill. George W. Bush, campaigning in California, said Gore "may have crossed a serious line" with his actions.

Actor Greg Kinnear. He plays a soap opera star in the new film Nurse Betty. KINNEAR's other films include As Good As It Gets (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award) and Sabrina. Kinnear got his start as host and executive producer of Talk Soup on E! Entertainment. Later he hosted his own late-night talk show, Later with Greg Kinnear.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on one of the nation's biggest and most successful stores that sells vintage clothing.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Andrew Bernard, an associate business professor at Dartmouth, about his predictions for which country will take home the most Olympic medals. Bernard bases his results on each country's population, wealth and past Olympic performances. He says the US will win 97 medals, followed by Germany with 63 and Russia with 59.

In the second of a two part interview, Host Bob Edwards talks with Martin Goldsmith former host of NPR's Performance Today, about his book The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany. The book recounts the life of Goldsmith's parents, who were members of the all-Jewish Kulturbund orchestras in Frankfurt and Berlin in Nazi Germany. Rosemarie Gumpert played viola; Gunther Goldschmidt played flute. (7:47) The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith is published by John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 04713

Eric Roy of member station KCRW reports on the raising of the S. S. Catalina. The former pleasure cruiser has become a shipwreck tourist spot in Mexico, but now preservationists are planning to repair it and return it to California.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on today's meeting between India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajapayee and President Clinton. The meeting is expected to improve U.S.-Indian relations, are tackling a main point of disagreement- India's nuclear weapons policies.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the discovery of some really old fungi. Scientists have long wondered how plants made the big move from water to earth five hundred million years ago. Now, two plant experts at the University of Wisconsin may have uncovered a lead in this mystery.