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Our summer reading series continues with Anthony Bourdain, chef, author and host of The Food Network's A Cook's Tour. He's been reading The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin (Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN: 0618197370); the forthcoming Spanish-language release El Bulli by experimental chef Ferran Adria (Conran Octopus Publishing (U.K.), ISBN: 1840913460); John Burdett's crime novel Bangkok 8 (Knopf, ISBN: 1400040442); and The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins (Owl Books, ISBN: 0805065989).

President Bush hails the deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons, who were killed in a gun battle with U.S. forces Tuesday. Bush says their deaths are a sign that the former Iraqi leader's regime "is gone and will not be coming back." Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten.

News analyst Daniel Schorr says weeks after the Africa-uranium story hit the headlines, the Bush administration is still struggling to get its story straight.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, questions the Bush administration's handling of post-war Iraq. Lugar suggests the administration has not been forthcoming with the Congress or the American people about the costs of rebuilding Iraq. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Pfc. Jessica Lynch returns home to a flag-waving welcome in Palestine, W.Va., and speaks to the media for the first time since her dramatic rescue in April. Lynch had been recuperating at an Army hospital in Washington, D.C., from injuries she received when her unit was ambushed in Iraq March 23. Hear Jeff Young of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

A roadside bomb explodes near a U.S. military convoy north of Baghdad, killing an American soldier and his Iraqi interpreter. U.S. military commanders predict Iraqi resistance fighters will step up their attacks in the coming weeks. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Beneath This Gruff Exterior, the new album by John Hiatt and a new John Hiatt tribute album, The Songs of John Hiatt.

The IAEA calls on the Bush administration to allow its teams to return to Iraq to investigate reports of widespread looting of Iraqi nuclear facilities. An IAEA spokeswoman says the agency is concerned despite assurances by U.S. officials that the facilities are secure. Meanwhile, concern over unexploded cluster bombs in Iraq mounts. Hear Michael Weisskopf of Time magazine.

Beijing slowly returns to normal as the reported number of SARS cases decreases. Children prepare to return to school and many people stop wearing facemasks on the street. But some public facilities still require visitors to get their temperatures taken before entering to check for high fevers -- a symptom of the deadly flu-like disease. Hear NPR's Richard Harris.

Host Robert Siegel talks with Hurst Hannum, professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, about whether the United States has moved from military action to occupation of Iraq. Hurst talks about the international laws that govern occupation.