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The Summer Olympics in Sydney will surely attract travelers to Australia. Liane talks to Bill Bryson, author of In A Sunburned Country, about his adventures down under. He says there's a lot more to this vast continent than kangaroos and Crocodile Dundee. (Broadway Books)

Former CIA director John Deutch had been under investigation for storing extremely sensitive government information on his home computer, in direct violation of rules that Deutch himself enforced. Attorney General Janet Reno recently reopened his case with respect to similar violations while he was an employee of the Department of Defense. All of this follows the overwhelming media frenzy surrounding the investigation of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. Liane sorts out the details with Vernon Loeb, National Security Correspondent with The Washington Post.

The Hebrew Bible mandates that the land is to lie fallow every seventh year. In Israel, farmers have gotten around that ancient edict thanks to a legal loophole. Now, ultra-Orthodox officials are trying to close that loophole, and the effort has touched off heated debate among farmers and religious leaders. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

Liane reads letters and e-mails from listeners, many of whom wrote in about last week's all-South Dakota show.

Liane talks with reporter Jon Miller from Lima, Peru, where President Alberto Fujimori has announced that he will call for new presidential elections -- and that he will not be a candidate.

Liane talks with NPR's Tom Goldman from Sydney on events at the Summer Olympics in Australia. Swimming has taken center stage in the opening weekend.

Twenty years ago, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter announced that the U-S would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The boycott affected some 200 U-S athletes, many of whom remain bitter about being denied their only chance to compete for their country in the Olympics. Nancy Greenleese of member station KPBS reports.

Weekend Edition's Information Age specialiast Rich Dean wades into the battle over digital music online, as companies such as MP3.com and Napster try to post free music on the internet in the face of growing legal challenges.

Christine Arrasmith from member station KPLU reports on clean-up efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state. The Hanford site contains one of the world's largest backlogs of radioactive waste, dating back to World War Two. This spring, the Department of Energy fired the firm contracted to do the job, which is supposed to be completed by 2028. Officials say that deadline will be tough to meet.

Weekend Edition's Popular Culture Commentator Steven Stark says the Federal Trade Commission is right to scrutinize the marketing of violent TV shows and movies to young people. But he says the FTC may be missing the point when it comes to rock music.