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Host Mike Shuster talks to William Baer, former head of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition about yesterday's decision by the U.S Supreme Court not to hear the Microsoft's appeal in its anti-trust case.

Host Mike Shuster talks with Dan Gillmor, technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, about the increase in 'peer-to-peer computing', where individual computers work together to help process information. Although the technology has been used to run the world-wide-web since its inception, peer computing has not found widespread commercial use. But with the successful use of the technique by high profile Internet companies such as Napster, interest in peer-to-peer computing is growing.

Todd Gleason reports on the farming industry's biggest tech fair, The Farm Progress Show, which takes place this week in Cantrall; Illinois.

Commentator Frank Deford returns from Sydney to offer some insight on Australian Olympic spirit. He seems to think American sports fans can take a lesson from the land down under.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports the latest developments on Sunday's Presidential elections in Yugoslavia. Yesterday, the Yugoslav Federal Electoral Commission announced that opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica failed to win the 50 percent needed for an outright victory. Kostunica won 48 percent of the vote and President Slobodan Milosevic won 40 percent.

NPR's John Burnett reports that as the bottom falls out of the Texas ranch economy, ranchers are turning to economic diversification -- such as ranch tourism -- to preserve their holdings. Tourism includes hosting mountain bike events or charging for admission to the bat cave. Some put a twist on the Tom Sawyer story by charging visitors to help with the ranch work.

Former presidential speechwriter Michael Waldman. His new book is called POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words that Defined the Clinton Presidency. (Simon and Schuster) From 1993 to 1999, Waldman was a special assistant and then chief speechwriter to Bill Clinton. During that time, he worked closely with the president to write or edit nearly two thousand speeches, including four State of the Union addresses and two inaugural addresses. Previously a public-interest lawyer and writer, Waldman is the author of Who Robbed America? A Citizen's Guide to the S&L Scandal. Since leaving the White House, he has taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg has a commentary on the idea of community. A controversial recent book by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam argues that community participation is in sharp decline in American life, but Nunberg says the word community is being used more frequently than ever.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews a new CD by Queens of the Stone Age. Its called R, as in the movie ratings code for Restricted. The band is currently on tour as part of OZZfest.

Representatives from the major film studios faced the Senate Commerce Committee today and promised to take steps to limit the marketing of violent R-rated films to children. The hearing came after a report by the Federal Trade Commission revealed that the studios sometimes target marketing campaigns at children too young to see R-rated films. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.