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By Stephen MeadorCarolina Beach, NC – Carolina Beach is the quintessential beach town. There are miles of sandy beaches and good waves for surfing. There…

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE NEW BASEBALL SEASON WHICH BEGINS REGULAR PLAY NEXT WEEK.

Film critic Joe Barber tells Scott Simon about holiday fare from Steven Spielberg: Memoirs of a Geisha, which he produced, and Munich, which he directed.

Liane talks with Sporting News columnist Dave Kindred about the tate of major league basball as mid-season is marked by Tuesday's All-Star aseball game. Attendance figures at America's major league baseball parks is ff by 20 per cent in the wake of the player's strike.

The American Music Center has commissioned six composers to write original compositions for its phone system. The idea is to make sitting on hold a more stimulating experience, and create new venues for electroacoustic composers. Robert Siegel talks with Joanne Cossa, the executive director of the American Music Center.

A new musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, opens this week on Broadway. Actual audience members are prescreened in order to take part in the show's spelling contest.

Noah talks with people who are holding summer jobs that end on or around Labor Day. Boston Berry is a pool lifeguard at the Lee Cultural Center in West Philadelphia, where he's been a guard for twenty-five summers. After the pool closes today, he'll resume his winter job, teaching high school. Patrick Houlihan and Susan Edelman are park rangers in the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Today marks the unofficial end of the camping season; during the summers, they conduct dogsled demonstrations, hikes, and educational seminars. Finally, Laurie Dahlgren is a student at the University of Minnesota who sells fudge, coffee, jams and chocolates at the Knott's Berry General Store in the Camp Snoopy Amusement Park at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Today's her last day of work before she returns to school.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the presidential candidates opening season. The top Republican hopefuls appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows just before kicking off the 1996 run for the White House.

GARDENING: SCOTT SIMON TALKS TO WEEKEND EDITION GARDENING EXPERT KETZEL LEVINE ABOUT THE "VEGETABLE GARDENER'S" SEASON. THEY ARE JOINED BY BARBARA DAMROSCH, AUTHOR OF "THE GARDEN PRIMER," (WORKMAN PUBLISHING) AND CO-HOST OF "GARDENING NATURALLY" ON THE LEARNING CHANNEL.

days of campaigning before the state's presidential primary, which kicks off the 1996 political season. Senator Robert Dole, who has had little time among the voters because of the budget battle in Washington, is profiled as he begins dealing with the residents of New Hampshire directly.