Friday, July 4, 2008

Tomorrow in Baghdad, leaders
from Iraq's feuding factions will announce an agreement
designed to heal ethnic and sectarian strife. The deal,
hammered out during meetings secret meeting in Helsinki,
Finland was forged by key members from both Shiite and
Sunni parties. We talk Padraig O'Malley, a University of
Massachusetts-Boston professor who convened the talks.

The first Protestants
to come here seeking religious asylum? French Huguenots
beat the Pilgrims by decades. The first European-born
American? Baby boy Snorri, born a thousand years ago. The
first trans-continental trek? Cabeza de Vaca, centuries
before Lewis and Clark. The first American woman head-of-
state? The Lady of the Lake, who ruled a vast 16th century
empire east of the Mississippi. We'll talk with Tony Horwitz,
author of "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering The
New World."

Tourists are
paying up to $10 thousand premiums for once in a life time
experiences on their vacations. Travel expe