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Robert Dornan now looks as if he's lost his bid to return to Congress for a tenth term. Latina challenger Loretta Sanchez is ahead by close to 1,000 votes, a week after the election, with only two or three thousand absentee and provisional votes still to count. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that it was absentee ballots and a strong Latino vote that overturned the fiery conservative in his equally conservative Orange County, California. Dornan is threatening to challenge the results, claiming that Democrats may have signed up ineligible immigrant voters.

which is putting three Martian meteorites on sale later this month .

Biographer Kenneth Silverman has researched the events surrounding the death of Harry Houdini - 70 years ago tomorrow - on Halloween. He has details of what was said by the McGill University students who visited the famous magician and escape artist in his dressing room in Montreal. One of the students asked if Houdini could, indeed withstand a severe blow to the stomach, and Houdini said "yes". Rising from a couch, Houdini was violently punched repeatedly in his stomach. His appendix later burst, and he collapsed. He survived only about a week.

of campaigning. He travels to Ohio and Pennsylvania today.

It has been four months since Turkey's Islamist-led government came into office on a fiery rhetorical platform of Islamizing the country's traditionally secular government. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that little has changed in Turkey's westward-leaning policies, raising questions whether the Islamicists have any hope of implementing their fundamentalist agenda.

Danny talks with Rev. Peter Gomes, the preacher to Harvard University, about his new book, "The Good Book," which explores the abuse of the Bible by the Religious Right to vindicate their positions on abortion and other items on the conservative agenda. Gomes accuses the Religious Right of idolizing the Bible, noting the Holy Scriptures should be used as a guide two and from God, and not worshipped as a god itself.

local volunteers to "get out the vote." They have assumed a particular importance in Florida -- the fourth largest state -- which polls say could go either way.

- NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on a real estate trend in that city which some say could endanger hopes of a lasting peace there. Traditionally, Jewish Israelis have lived on the west side of the city and Palestinians have lived on the east side. But recently a private Jewish group has begun buying properties on the east side and renting them to Jewish families. And critics warn that the trend is only adding to tensions between Arabs and Israelis.

President Clinton's east coast campaign.

in mutual funds. Today, she examines the complexities of assessing risk.