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NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports that progress continues to be slow towards developing a vaccine for AIDS. Experts from developing countries say one of the reasons is that the developed world has diverted too much of its resources to researching treatments. There's also disagreement over when and whether to test vaccines that appear to only be partially effective.

Reporter Alice Furlaud (FURR-loh) profiles poet Ellen Hinsey, winner of the 1995 Yale Younger Poets Prize. It is a prize given to an American...under 40...who has never been published. Hinsey's book "Cities of Memory" has just been released, and poetry editors admire her unique approach. (7:45) (Stations: "Cities of Memory" is published by the Yale University Press,

Noah and Linda read from listeners' comments. To contact All Things Considered, the address is All Things Considered Letters, 6-3-5 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington D-C, 20001. To contact the program via e-mail, the address is ATC at NPR dot ORG.

Commentator Michele Mitchell says the Republican party has a problem with pop culture. They put it down, but this can be alienating to all those youthful Republicans they have struggled to attract to the party. She says the GOP needs to show greater tolerance for pop culture, even embrace it in order to keep the party strong with young voters and young politicians.

As the summer's first major storm hits the U.S., NPR's Adam Hochberg will talk with Linda about damage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Eileen Leblanc (luh-BLAHNK) of member station WHQR will report from Wilmington, NC. Both cities are in the path of the storm.

Linda talks with Catherine Bowman about the poetry of seventy-year-old Philip Booth. We'll hear one of his early poems and two of his new poems.

Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.

Joshua Levs reports from member station W-A-B-E on what Olympic organizers are calling "ambush advertising." The Olympic Committee in Atlanta is concerned about the unlicensed use of Olympic images and references in advertising. After the Olympic Committee threatened a state lawsuit, Adidas withdrew a television commercial this week that depicted images of past Olympic Games.

Commentator Michael Hood recalls his childhood in the Fifties, when fathers ruled the roost and children knew their parts. Chicken parts were divvied up according to the family food chain, with giblets being the prize: Food of the Dads.

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green (fred-REE-kah MATH-yooz GREEN) works at home, but she misses the office -- the daily flow of human interaction among colleagues. So she has joined an on-line group where they regularly enjoy jokes, recipes, memories, and dreams: the skin contact of cyberspace. It isn't like sharing stories with a buddy over the coffeemaker, she says, But it's not like sitting in rush hour traffic, either.

- Daniel speaks with Thomas Hanley, one of the defense attornies for Bosian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Hanley argues the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, which has indicted Karadzic as a war criminal and issued a warrent for his arrest, is denying his client due process of law and a fair trail.

- NPR's John Burnett spends a morning with a man who has written a book about Hummingbirds.

President Clinton announced today that the administration wants to spend 5 billion dollars over the next four years repairing the nation's schools. The move comes just weeks after a government report documented serious decay in schools nationwide. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

Robert and Noah talk about President Clinton's speech before about five thousand labor activists today in Chicago, and Bob Dole's efforts to patch up differences in the Republican party about how to deal with the issue of abortion. (1:30) (TAPE &

Texas Republicans are meeting in San Antonio this week at their state convention and the issue of abortion is proving extremely divisive. Many state party activists are furious with the Dole campaign and moderate party leaders for not holding firm against including language stating tolerance for other views on abortion in the party platform. Some are threatening to stop one of the state's senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison, from being a state delegate to the Republican national convention. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

A federal judge in Montana today ordered Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski to be remanded to Sacramento to face charges that he killed two people and injured two others with bombs. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the risks prosecutors may face if they attempt to seek the death penalty in what will be one of the most carefully watched cases of the decade.

Robert talks with Clifford Krauss, the police department bureau chief for the New York Times. Krauss discusses how fingerprint technology and a citywide crackdown on petty crime led to the arrest of three suspected killers in the New York metropolitan area.

Commentator Susan Aaronson (AIR-un-sun) says that too often, reporters use inflammatory language or dramatic metaphors to explain economic situations...phrases such as "trade war," in describing our relationship with China, are misleading and inaccurate.

Linda talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about this week's developments in the presidential campaign, including the announcement by former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm that he would run for the Reform Party nomination and billionaire Ross Perot's statements about his plans to run. They'll also talk about the controversy over Bob Dole's decision not to address the annual convention of the NAACP and President Clinton's appearance before the civil rights group.

Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new film "Courage Under Fire," starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, about the first woman to die in combat as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.