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Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Michael Sullivan in Cairo, where Arab foreign ministers have been meeting prior to this week's Arab heads-of-state summit, the first since 1996.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on one of the ballot questions facing the people of Massachusetts this election: whether incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote. Inmate advocates say taking the vote away from incarcerated felons is excessively punitive and racially discriminatory.

Commentator Russell Roberts tries his hand at translating the economic mumbo-jumbo which both candidates are using.

Commentator David Shenk says a major study released today from the University of California in Berkeley aims for the impossible: to quantify how much information the world produces each year. That includes everything in a year's worth of e-mails, phone calls, radio and television broadcasts, Websites, office documents, newspapers, memos, etc. The number is so big that U.C. is coming close to the extreme end of terms that have been invented to measure such volume. (3:00) See the study at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/

This week, presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush visited Wisconsin to rally swing voters as well as party loyalists. Although it only offers 11 electoral votes, the state is considered fertile ground for both parties. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR National Political Correspondent Elizabeth Arnold.

Scott talks with Jim Metzner, the host and producer of the feature radio show, Pulse of the Planet, about some dirt eating parrots in Peru.

When the heat gets too close, every mobster has a hideout. Chicago's Al Capone had plenty. Now one of Capone's get-aways is up for auction, with bids coming in from around the world. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Scott speaks with veteran actress Maureen O'Hara about her career and upcoming CBS television movie The Last Dance.

Host Lisa Simeone visits three cities in the state of Kentucky, one of several swing states in this years election to talks to voters about the Presidential election. She talks with voters in Louisville, Lexington and Campbellsville, Kentucky.

Vice President Al Gore took some time off the campaign trail today to watch his son play a school football game, but not before he spoke to voters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where health care is a big issue. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.