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NPR's Renee Montagne talks to members of the North Mississippi Allstars about their new CD Shake Hands With Shorty. (8:34) North Mississippi Allstars latest CD is titled Shake Hands With Shorty, Uni/Tone Cool; ASIN: B00004T0EE, www.tonecool.com

Host Bob Edwards talks to Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who's in Washington for meetings with White House and State Department officials. Prime Minister Zenawi says the discussions will concentrate on ending the ongoing war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and delivering emergency food relief.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from Florida on the campaign of Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush. Bush is still in Florida, fighting to keep his campaign alive in a state governed by his own brother.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the economic boom that's creating prosperity in suburban Rochester, New York, but hardly benefiting the center city. For example, the suburb of Henrietta, south of Rochester, has attracted a number of new businesses and jobs. Prosperity values in older downtown neighborhoods have declined, and the city's tax base has weakened, as businesses have moved out. Those neighborhoods are left with a greater concentration of poverty and crime.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on the possibility that North Korea has privately agreed to allow US troops to remain on the Korean peninsula, as part of the reconciliation between North and South Korea. South Korea's President Kim Dae-Jung says he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reached an agreement during a June summit meeting that the remaining US troops would help stabilize the region.

From Deadwood, a gold rush town of the 1880s that turned to casino gambling in the 1990s to seek economic stability, NPR Correspondent Margot Adler tells a story about the power of myth, legend and reinvention in the West.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that a new study of hurricanes in the U.S. shows many more people have died far inland than along the coasts when storms hit. That's because storm surges catch them by surprise, in their cars.

NPR News Correspondent Howard Berkes visits with his father-in-law and tells the story of one family farmer who first plowed his fields with a team of horses and now is trying to start a co-op to turn corn into ethanol, an effort to get better prices for crops while producing a cleaner fuel. (7:38) NOTE: (Puzzlemaster Will Shortz is off this

Liane reads a selection of items from recent newspapers.

Superintendant Bill Supernaugh of the Badlands National Park takes Liane on a tour of the forbidding landscape.