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NPR's Pam Fessler reports on the dilemma inside the Gore campaign on what role President Clinton should play in the election. Yesterday, Mr. Clinton rallied the troops on Capitol Hill, giving an impassioned speech before Congressional Democrats on how George W. Bush is distorting his Administration's record. Yet the Vice President has rarely invoked Mr. Clinton's name on the campaign trail.

Authors promoting their books often travel from city to city stopping for interviews at as many broadcast outlets as possible. For chefs with new cookbooks this means more than being able to talk about their work, it means being able to demonstrate it on camera. Media guru Lisa Ekus runs a T.V. kitchen training ground for chefs ready for the big time.

More than 100 people were injured today and at least three killed in continuing violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Yesterday the U.N. General Assembly condemned Israel's excessive use of force against Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Mike Shuster in Jerusalem

Delegates from some 22 Arab nations are meeting in emergency summit this weekend in Cairo to underline their support for the Palestinians. Although Libyan delegates left the summit, saying nothing concrete would result, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is trying to steer a moderate course among Arab neighbors and allies. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Cairo.

Commentator Mary McClintock Fulkerson says that there should be more, not less, discussion of the candidates' religious beliefs. If voters really knew about candidates' religious philosophies, she says, it would be an indicator how they might make decisions about governance.

Host Lisa Simeone talk with students at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky about why many of then are still undecided voters.

This week the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 400 points in just a few hours, before recovering and ending the week with a gain. Yet other October market surprises - the Crash of 1929, the skidding stock markets of 1987 - made us wonder if there's something about October that just rattles investors. Host Lisa Simeone puts the question to David Hale, Chief Economist of Zurich.

Missouri voters have picked the winning candidate for President more often than any other state in the union. They've only gotten it wrong once in the past hundred years. But this year, how Missourians will vote is in question: popular Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash earlier this week as he was campaigning for U.S. Senate. Now it's unclear who voters will be electing if they mark their ballots for Carnahan ... and that may hurt Vice-President Gore. NPR's David Welna reports

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports from campaign trail, this week with Vice President Gore. Several thousand supporters turned out to see the Vice President in New Orleans last night. With governor George W. Bush showing a slight lead in the polls, the Vice President is fighting back hard.

Residents of Alaska already enjoy the lowest tax tax burden in America. But on election day, voters will decide if they want to place a cap on their property tax. From member station KTOO in Juneau, Anne Sutton reports.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem about response there to the Arab Summit and what's ahead for the government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Kate Seelye has a profile of the Iran and Syria -backed guerillas whose reputation has risen in Arab circles since the withdrawal of Israeli troops last May.

Chinese restaurants have never been known for classy ambience, until now. The influence of western tastes and western money is changing the flavor of Kung Pao Chicken. From China, Rob Gifford reports.

The citizens of the District of Columbia have been taxed without representation since the 1800s. Host Lisa Simone talks with Eleanor Holmes-Norton, D.C. and constitution expert Jamie Raskin, of the American University.

Lisa visits the estate of the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriwether Post in Washington D.C. She views emeralds as big as bars of soap and a tiara fit for an empress.

NPR's Eric Westervelt has the story of the 1964 recording, A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane. It's a four part piece that expresses Coltrane's faith in God. And it's part of the NPR 100 -- NPR's list of most important American musical works of the last century. (12:30) View the enitre NPR 100 list at: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Bethlehem reports the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza has had a devastating affect on the Palestinian economy. Israel has also suffered economic losses.

In West Virginia, wild turkey hunting season is underway. About ten-thousand of the birds are bagged annually in the state. Hunters try to imitate the turkeys' call to attract them. Dan Heyman of West Virginia Public Radio has a report on the art, science and sport of turkey calling.

Richard Galpin of the BBC reports that the former head of the Indonesian armed forces, General Wiranto has released an album of love songs. He says the money it raises will be used to help the victims of violence across Indonesia, including in East Timor. General Wiranto was named by the National Human Rights Commission as being morally responsible for the violence in East Timor last year.

Nearly six months into the longest talent strike in Hollywood history, negotiators for actors and the advertising industry have announced a tentative agreement on a new contract. NPR's Rick Karr reports.