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Host Lisa Simeone visits Southway Bowling Lanes, a neighborhood duckpin bowling alley in South Baltimore, which closes later this month. Lisa talks to Southway manager Alva Brown, who's worked there for 42 years, and Pat Turner, the developer who will remodel the property after October 31st.

World leaders are traveling to Egypt for an emergency summit they hope will bring an end to violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories. From Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the funeral held today for one of two Israeli soldiers killed in the West Bank last week.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr considers the future of the Middle East peace process.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda has killed 39 people, an infected dozens more. Noah talks to Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, Medical Superintendent for Saint Mary Locar Hospital in the town of Gulu, where a team from the World Health Organization arrived today. Lukwiya says that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization will be helpful in setting up laboratories to help with early detection of the Ebola virus.

U.S. Researchers claim to have revived bacteria that have spent the last 250,000,000 years in suspended animation. The research could establish a new record for oldest living creatures ever found and raises the possibility of life being able to survive long enough the travel between planets. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports today, a federal appeals court released the final report of Independent Counsel Robert Ray on the firings of White House travel office employees in 1993. As Ray had announced in a preliminary report, he finds that Hillary Rodham Clinton gave investigators factually inaccurate statements as to her involvement with the firings. But he also says she may not have known they were false because she may not have known the influence she had with officials who made the firing decision.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on Palestinians' frustrated hopes for the peace process at Oslo.

Commentator Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer prize winning author who has written two books about disease in Africa, says though much about Ebola is a mystery, there is also a lot experts do know. She says the spread of the Ebola virus has been aided by the squalor of third-world hospitals, corruption and war. And she makes an argument for the first world to get involved in the fight against Ebola.

The newest CD by jazz violinist Regina Carter, Motor City Moments, features compositions by her fellow Detroit natives like vibraphonist Milt Jackson and Marvin Gaye. Carter is garnering recognition for her jazz interpretations of pop-based material. Reuben Jackson has a review. (4:30) Motor City Moments, by Regina Carter is copyright 2000 on the Verve label, catalog # 314 543 927-2, see http://vervemusicgroup.com.