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NPR's Don Gonyea reports committee members from both the House and Senate questioned Bridgestone-Firestone and Ford Motor Company executives on Capitol Hill yesterday about the recall of more than 6 and a half million tires. Legislators are promising more hearings in the future. The questions centered upon how both companies handled the recall, and why it took so long for officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a recall.

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on Democratic Presidential nominee Al Gore's remarks about his newly released economic plan, published in a paperback book. At Cleveland State University yesterday, the Vice President talked about some of the proposals in the book, titled Prosperity for America's Families.

Jason Beaubien, of member station WBUR reports on the city of Boston's efforts to modernize its sewage treatment system.

The debate over whether the Anasazi ancestors of today's Pueblo people were cannibals has gone on for forty years. John Nielsen reports that new evidence from a long hidden Anasazi Site called Cowboy Wash near Sleeping Ute Mountain in Colorado has added new spice to the debate. The research is published in this week's edition of the science journal Nature.

Noah talks with Beverly Lennen, Deputy Chief of Police for Santa Fe, about the usually high number of calls about skunks in her city. The animals are having a hard time finding food because of the dry weather, and so have come to town for Santa Fe cuisine. They've been feasting on leftovers in garbage bags and compost piles.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jake Moreland, of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office about the recent violence in West Timor.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports the civil case against Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi group based in Idaho, has gone to the jury. Prosecutors are suing asking for more than 11 million dollars in damages stemming from a 1998 incident where three Aryan Nations security guards allegedly assaulted a women and her son at gunpoint.

NPR's Renee Montagne pays a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where the a paleontological dig is taking place. The pits once supplied Native Americans and local settlers with sealant and fuel, and in the late 1800's they began to yield the bones of ancient beasts.

NPR's Rick Karr reports from New York on a federal judge's damage award in the case that a record label brought against MP3.com. Judge Jed Rakoff ruled MP3.com services infringed on Universal Music Group's copyrights by allowing MP3 users to listen to CD's they own from any computer with an internet connection. The damages could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Commentator Jeff Goodell says that Silicon Valley, the area where he grew up, appears to be experiencing a kind of "prosperity fatigue." Some affluent young residents seem bored with their material possessions and are giving generously to charities. And, he says, other less prosperous workers are discovering that "the Silicon Valley dream" is not quite as democratic as it first appeared.