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Daniel talks with Craig and Pat Enenbach (EHN-in-bahk), founders of the Omaha (Nebraska) Handicap Parking Patrol. The Enenbach's, along with about 45 volunteers, issue citations at cars parked illegally in spots reserved for the disabled. They have been empowered to do so by the Omaha police department. Twelve groups nationwide perform a similar function.

NPR's John Ydstie looks at the realities behind some of the economic claims and counter-claims in last night's presidential debate. Contender Bob Dole went to great lengths to persuade listeners that the American economy is worse off under President Clinton, while the President stressed what he portrayed as the economic upturn over the past four years.

Noah talks to Allan Pedersen, who runs a hotdog stand called McAllan in Jutland, Denmark. Pedersen was sued by McDonald's for copyright infringement for using the "Mc" prefix on the name of his business. Denmark's Supreme Court ruled that he did not infringe upon McDonald's right to the prefix. This is one of several trademark lawsuits McDonald's has brought against other businesses worldwide.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade that the government of President Slobodan Milosevic is moving to keep the protests against his regime from spreading. Two independent radio stations knocked off the air earlier this week are operating again. The election commission is appealing the annulment of the elections that started all the protests. And the government is promising to pay retirement pensions that should have been sent out in October.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that it is not easy for people to immigrate legally to the United States, as the case of two sisters from the Philippines shows. More than a half million Filipinos are waiting to join relatives in the States, but that wait can take decades.

Noah Adams talks with two nuclear warfare experts about the significance of a statement signed by 60 retired military officers around the world, which calls for the virtual elimination of nuclear weapons. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, retired, is deputy director of the Center for Defense Information. From 1955 until 1980, he was responsible for planning and training for nuclear warfare. In the 1980s, as Director of Operations for U.S. forces in Europe and the Middle East, Carroll was responsible for 7,000 nuclear weapons. He signed the statement. Richard Perle is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. As part of the Reagan administration, he was responsible for negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms. Perle, who didn't sign the statement, says it's dangerous for the U.S. to get rid of all its nuclear weapons.

You can lose your wallet, you can forget your PINs and passwords, but you can't lose your fingerprints or the sound of your voice. NPR's Dan Charles reports that new technologies are taking advantage of these built-in identifiers to develop fool-proof methods for making sure you are who you say you are. Some critics worry they also make it too easy to invade one's privacy.

Bob Dole's campaign bus rolled through a rainy New Jersey today. Attempting to capitalize on what aides characterize a strong showing in the first presidential debate, the Republican nominee hopes his tax cut plan and focus on trust will appeal to the state's swing voters. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

Danny speaks to Rwanda's Ambassador to the United States, Theogene Rudasingwa. The Rwandan diplomat says the return of the refugees back home obviates the need for a multinational force, whose original mission was to secure the refugees against attacks by Hutu militiamen. With the militamen now on the run, Rudasingwa says his country can be responsible for security. But he now wants international donors who sustained the refugees in their camps to give the funds to Rwanda for their resettlement.

Robert talks to Ruth Marcus, a staff writer for the Washington Post , about the latest revelations of donations to the Democratic National Committee by visitors to the White House. Many big donors were invited to coffee or dinners, after which they wrote checks to the DNC.

It seems certain that New York City will have less than one thousand homicides...for the first time since 1968. Crime overall is down throughout the city...Melissa Block reports on what this drop in crime means, and how the city's police force brought about the changes.

Chris Nuttall reports from Ankara, Turkey, on an effort by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to convince a group of Turkish Kurds to leave their camps in northern Iraq and return to Turkey. The Kurds have been in the camps since 1994 when they fled fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatist guerrillas.

Commentator David Greenberger proposes a new unit of measurement to gauge how old we are: dog lives. The average dog lives 12 years. A 12-year-old is one dog year old. A 25-year old is 2 Dog Years 1. This is an attempt to reverse the business of dog years - which translates each year into seven.

NPR'S Wendy Kaufman reports that Boeing and McDonnell Douglass have expressed confidence that the merger they announced yesterday will be approved by federal regulators. Experts agree, since the Pentagon has been driving much of the consolidation in aerospace, and they predict that odds the federal government will find a way to sign off on the proposed merger. But final approval is far from a sure thing.

NPR's David Welna reports from Havana that Cuban President Fidel Castro is defiantly insisting that he will not permit further political reforms, despite expectations raised by Castro's recent meeting with Pope John Paul the Second. Cuba is also under fire from Europe, particularly from longtime ally Spain, for its lack of democratic freedoms. In the latest sign of his hardline stance, Castro today oversaw a huge parade of military hardware, the first such display in Havana in ten years.

Commentator Joyce Maynard tells the story of one-armed Frank... a man who lives in her town whom she took to a concert by the Fabulous Thunderbirds-- and he delighted in pulling out his own harmonica to play along. Frank was deep into his eighties at the time, and prompted Joyce to reflect on her own father -- she wished she had taken him to a concert when he was still alive.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren tells the story of growing up in a family that did not attend church...but deciding she wanted to be part of the church community. On her own, she went to Sunday School and confirmation, and became an active member in the church community. She found her own way...as she believes many children are able to do.

Marianne Jennings feels that men who were geeks in high school have a strength of character unknown to the handsome varsity stars of yesteryear. She'd take a chess-club geek over the school quarterback any day.

Russia is angry over the White House's decision to block the sale of ultra-fast supercomuters to Moscow. The Russians say they need the technology to conduct virtual nuclear tests so that they won't have to conduct real nuclear testing, which is forbidden under September's nuclear test ban treaty. NPR's Andy Bowers reports the decision demonstrates the lingering distrust surrounding the nuclear arms race.

Jacki speaks with Paulette Giles, author of "Northern Spirit," (Hungry Minds Press, Doubleday Canada) her account of seven years of living among the Ojibway and Cree Indians in Canada's north woods. Giles says she discovered and learned to appreciate a world apart during her years in the wilderness.