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NPR reporter Martin Kaste visits the beachs of Copacabana and Ipanema where Brazil's beach volleyball teams practice for the Olympics. The women's team is the favorite going into the games, which will be played for the first time this year on real sand.

Liane provides an overview of the past week's news, weather and sports in South Dakota.

NPR News Correspondent David Welna chronicles the story of the town of Mitchell, first built during the era of the railroad and now struggling to stay alive as farming communities in the surrounding area lose their young people to economic opportunities away from the land.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with French farmer and activist Jose Bove, who is in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend attending a conference titled, "Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food as Culture." ("Terroir" means the relationship between food and the land.)

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR's Julie Rovner about the health care proposals from presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. Rovner says that while Universal Health Care Coverage was the buzz word in health care reform some years ago, there's been little mention of it this election season - except from Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Host Jacki Lyden reads leaders from listeners.

Liane stops at Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota's biggest tourist attraction, and speaks with a visitor who found inspiration in the mountainside carving of the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR science reporter David Kestenbaum about whether or not the hottest item of Olympic clothing will really help athletes swim faster or just make them look faster.

Most people don't think of rivers when they think of Los Angeles, but in fact, the city does have one. And as Laura Sydell reports, activists are working hard to beautify that body of water which has become much more closely associated with scary scenes in movies than a bucolic retreat for local residents.

Liane looks out across the Missouri River from a spot where Lewis and Clark camped on the expedition to explore a passage to the Pacific Ocean.