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NPR's Richard Harris reports on the implications of the recent disclosure that some U.S. troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons during the Gulf War for so-called "Gulf War Syndrome." There have been suspicions that chemical or biological weapons could be to blame for some of the baffling symptoms that soldiers have complained about.

NPR'S Melissa Block reports on the bust of a huge video piracy ring in New York city. Three dozen people were arrested for selling an estimated 100,000 counterfeit tapes each week throughout the country. Not only were many current movies found on tape, but also master copies of movies that haven't made it to the theatres yet.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from Moscow on what has happened to the reformers who helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. The reformists were part of a movement that helped boost Boris Yeltsin to power, but that movement is in disarray...no longer united by the ideas that helped bring down the Communists, and divided over the issue of whether or not to support Yeltsin.

NPR'S Melissa Block reports from Long Island on the continuing recovery effort and investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800. Scuba divers today are reportedly focusing on an expanded debris field closer to Kennedy Airport...and they are looking at luggage from the crash. The discovery of the luggage could bolster the theory that a bomb placed in the plane's cargo hold brought the plane down.

NPR'S Ted Clark reports that the Saudi refusal to allow U.S. intelligence officials to interrogate the four men allegedly responsible for the November truck bombing in Riyadh and their refusal to move the perimeter at the Khobar towers illustrates the difficulties that arise when concern for the safety of Americans clashes with concerns for maintaining good relations between the U.S. and the host country.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that the international relief agency CARE along with the Atlanta Restaurant Association have come together to organize lavish receptions for some of the smaller Olympic delegations from poor countries like Haiti, Mozambique and Angola. It is recognition that athletes from these countries doen't often get at the Games.

Jim Metzner reports on the potters of Onta, located on the island of Kyushu (KYOO-SHOO) in southern Japan. Their pottery is highly prized, and made in a way that is rich in ceremony and tradition...drawing on the sound of the rush of the waters used in its manufacture and incorporating the ideals of beauty, harmony, and balance. (8:00) (S

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports on a proposal to close down automatic teller machines by nightfall in Los Angeles. A string of assaults and murders sparked the move, which is unpopular with bankers, who point out that it's still more likely a person will be struck by lightning than robbed at an ATM.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned Israel it has three weeks to begin implementing the Middle East peace accords, or he will cancel an economic conference slated to be held in November in Egypt. Mubarak is using the conference as leverage to get Israel to soften its position with Syria and the Palestinians.

NPR's John Ydstie reports on today's Nobel Prize in economics, awarded to Canadian William Vickery of Columbia University in New York and James Mirrlees, a British professor at Cambridge University in England. The two economists won the Nobel prize for their theories of how institutions make financial decisions and plans based on incomplete information.