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Would it bother you to find the neighbors' cattle grazing on your front lawn? Just how long can you live without power when it's 20 degrees outside? Some communities in western states have drafted ground rules for newcomers -- a new "Code of the West." Read some helpful hints for life on a new frontier.

Commentator Kevin Phillips considers the relationship between midterm elections and the 2004 presidential election.

Communist North Korea has reached out to the capitalist world in recent months by lifting price controls and allowing salaries to soar. The government now plans a free-trade zone along the Chinese border. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution demanding that Iraq disarm and ordering new weapons inspections. President Bush welcomes the development. Iraq is silent. NPR News reports.

Just days after being appointed by Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura to temporarily fill the seat of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, Dean Barkley arrives in Washington to assume his duties. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sen. Barkley.

Two papers in the journal Nature shed new light on the relationship between wildfires and the environment. Major fires in Indonesia in the late 1990s spewed large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

Police departments around the country could have discovered possible connections between the Washington-area sniper shootings and other killings much sooner if they had been fully utilizing a national crime database. Robert Siegel talks about this with John Timoney, Chief Executive Officer of Beau, Dietl & Associates. Timoney was formerly Police Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department.

John Ydstie talks with Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about slow sales for sports tickets and how basketball, hockey and baseball teams are trying to respond. The New York Knicks recently ended a 20-year streak of playing before sellout crowds at Madison Square Garden. Tickets for National Hockey League games barely edged up this season and several teams are having difficulty filling their arenas.

Accused sniper John Lee Malvo, 17, is ordered held without bail after a hearing Friday in Fairfax County, Va. A preliminary hearing was held earlier in the day in Prince William County, Va., for 41-year-old John Allen Muhammad, the other suspect in a string of killings in the Washington, D.C. area and the Deep South. NPR's Andrea Seabrook talks with NPR's John Ydtsie.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Miami on how what appeared to be a close contest between incumbent governor Jeb Bush and the Democratic challenger Bill McBride, turned into a 13-point romp for Bush.