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Melinda speaks with Cathy Crimmins about life with her husband, Alan Forman, following his traumatic brain injury. She writes about his recovery, and about how this trauma changed their relationship in her new book, Where is the Mango Princess?

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about this week in the George W. Bush campaign. Bush appeared on two popular TV talk shows, and campaigned heavily with family members in Florida. That was supposed to be a safe state for Mr. Bush since his brother is Governor. But polls show him even with Vice-President Al Gore.

The state of Missouri is a battleground for presidential votes. With frequent visits from George W. Bush and Al Gore the candidates are trying to win over St. Louis voters. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Melinda with some thoughts on Court TV's decision to pull Confessions from its lineup.

The State Department has pulled the security clearance for the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Martyn Indyk. Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark about the details and what this might mean for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

On Sunday voters in Yugoslavia go to the polls . Host Jacki Lyden talks with Gillian Sanford, who is covering the story for U.S News and World Report.

Jeff Lunden reports that the movie The Sound of Music is making a comeback in theaters in London and New York.

Host Mike Shuster talks to William Baer, former head of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition about yesterday's decision by the U.S Supreme Court not to hear the Microsoft's appeal in its anti-trust case.

Host Mike Shuster talks with Dan Gillmor, technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, about the increase in 'peer-to-peer computing', where individual computers work together to help process information. Although the technology has been used to run the world-wide-web since its inception, peer computing has not found widespread commercial use. But with the successful use of the technique by high profile Internet companies such as Napster, interest in peer-to-peer computing is growing.

Host Mike Shuster talks to Bruce Link, co-author of a mental health study that is expected to be released today. According to a study, Americans increasingly associate mental illness with the potential for violence despite evidence the mentally ill are not violence-prone.