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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.

Republican Presidential nominee George W. Bush campaigned at a school in southern California today. Bush is the underdog in the state, but says he is optimistic that he can win an upset there. NPR's Andy Bowers talked to one voter who explained both why Bush both down in the polls and holds realistic hope.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports on a day of startling upsets by US athletes at the Olympics in Sydney. First, Rulon Gardner, a Greco-Roman wrestler of modest prior accomplishment, defeated the Superman of his sport, Alexander Kareline of Russia. Three-time gold medal winner Kareline had not lost a match since 1987. Later in the evening, the American baseball team shut out Cuba in the gold medal game. The favored Cubans had won the last two Olympic titles.

The last time Australia hosted the Olympics, in 1956, Hungary was a power in water polo, and scored a victory over the Soviet Union. It was important because at the time, Hungary was trying to win a real war back home against the Soviets. Robert talks to Ervin Zador, who was injured in that 1956 game. Since then he's been coaching water polo and swimming in the United States.

Senator Joe Lieberman is a household name because he's running for vice president. But he also has a second campaign to run this fall, for re-election to his Senate seat in Connecticut. He insists he intends to run both races, but some Democrats are having second thoughts. They worry that if Al Gore and Lieberman win the national race, Connecticut's Republican governor will fill the vacant Senate seat with a Republican. Connecticut Public Radio's John Dankosky reports.

Commentator Desiree Cooper talks about James, a young man who bludgeoned his father and is completely unrepentant about it. James says he suffered from abuse from his father. Cooper says that there is much concern about violence on television making kids more violent, but that real violence in their lives is an even more negative force in the lives of kids.

Catherine Houchins is pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge in Roanoke, VA. She is conducting funeral services for Danny Overstreet, who was shot and killed at a Roanoke gay bar on Friday. Six others were wounded in the shooting. Noah talks to her about the mood in the southwest Virginia community.

NPR's John McChesney returns to the area where his family farmed for many generations in Saline County, Missouri. It's a rich agricultural region, surrounded on two sides by the Missouri River. He compares the way of life he knew as a boy with some of the new farmers. He finds that in some ways the farmers' modern high-tech methods are their own worst enemies: greater yield means flat prices. And in hog farming, the almost-automated life of the modern hog seems immoral to some old-timers who had more affection for their animals.

IBM built its supercomputer Deep Blue and it subsequently became the world's first computer to win the world championship in chess. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on plans to build the world's fastest new computer to solve what is probably biology's most complex problem -- how proteins fold. (4:30) See http://foldingathome.stanford.edu.

Banning Eyre reviews the CD Paranda: Africa in Central America which features music from the Garifunas of Central America, people who are descended from Africans and Arawak Indians. The Garifuna music is called Paranda, and it's a lovely, mostly acoustic mix of blues, Cuban rhythms, and African styles still being sung and played by the few remaining "parandero" musicians. (3:00) The CD Paranda: Africa in Central America is on Stonetree Records, distributed internationally by Detour/Warner Brothers. The catalog number is 3984-27303-2.

Marion Jones won Olympic Bronze in the long jump, finishing three inches behind Germany's Heike Dreschler. It was her third medal in these games, but ends her quest for FIVE GOLD medals. Jones has already won two golds -- in the 100 and 200 meters. She still plans to run in two relays tomorrow. In an even bigger surprise, NPR's Eric Weiner reports, Morocco's Hicham el Gerrouj suffered a bitter defeat in the 1500 meters. He'd been virtually unbeatable since getting tangled with another runner and finishing last at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

Austin, Texas online columnist Mike Jasper thinks its time to allow any kind of performance enhancing drug athletes want for the Olympics -- to level the playing field. In his tongue-in-cheek commentary, he advocates equal opportunity for all players.

Noah Adams speaks with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the climax of the regular Major League Baseball season. Heading into the last weekend before the playoffs, some playoff slots remain to be settled. The season may need to be extended into next week to decide all the playoff pairings. One thing is certain: this season, teams with the biggest payrolls are not the only temas making it to the playoffs. That, and Fox TV's new 2-point-5-billion dollar contract with Major League Baseball for national broadcast rights should make next year's labor negotiations interesting.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that at this critical time in Yugoslavia, the United States has little influence over events there. For ten years, the U.S. government has focused on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Now, at a pivotal moment when Milosevic will either be forced out or consolidate his rule, the U.S. finds it has few options.

Jacky Rowland reports from Belgrade that Yugoslav opposition leaders have launched a civil disobedience campaign to persuade President Slobodan Milosevic to recognize Sunday's election victory of Vojislav Kostunica and to cede power. Thousands of Serbs demonstrated again today in downtown Belgrade, and crowds were out in provincial cities, as well. She says although state-run television is showing pictures of Milosevic, still in charge, government officials are not answering phones, and it seems they do not know how to handle the situation. And, though top officers in the army and police are loyal to Milosevic, army soldiers, as well as rank and file policemen, do not support the regime.

This week, entertainment industry executives proclaimed to Congress that they would never again allow young children to be part of the industry's test audience for R-rated films. Satirists Amy Dickinson and Rebecca Flowers pretend to be two 9-year-olds who took part in the screenings.

Each fall, the New York Jets welcome a few lucky fans to a special training camp for women only. It was originally designed to help football widows better understand the game. But Tandaleya Wilder reports most of the women at this year's camp came to improve their own performance on the gridiron.

Commentator Mark Jenkins was a student at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. He says the new film Remember the Titans, which is based on events in at Williams High that year, doesn't square with his memory of the school.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the Taliban, the militant Islamic movement that's taken over most of Afghanistan, has sent a delegation to the U.S. to lobby for international recognition of the Taliban as the country's legitimate government. The Taliban is trying to gain Afghanistan's United Nations seat. It also wants to dilute international criticism in the areas of human rights and terrorism. The Taliban has refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, who's accused of masterminding the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa.

Those on both sides of the abortion debate are saying that whoever wins November's presidential race can have an impact on the availability of RU 486, the abortion drug. But as Julie Rovner reports, there are limits to the influence any president can have on the availability of this drug.