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Tom Manoff reviews "Vikings of the Sunrise: Fantasy on the Polynesian Star Path Navigators," by Stephen Scott and the Bowed Piano Ensemble. The piece was composed as a meditation on navigators of the Pacific Ocean...from the ancient Polynesians to the 16th Century Portuguese to Thor Heyerdahl. Scott and his musicians create sounds by playing the interior metal strings of pianos, making for an ethereal, layered sound.

Commentator Andrew Lam uses his family's story as Vietnamese immigrants to frame his concerns about the current anger over immigration. He says that neither presidential candidate argues for the essential role of immigrants in our national life but vie instead to beef up border patrols.

1: Photographer JOHN DUGDALE is joined by psychotherapist ROBERT LEVITHAN to talk about a new class of AIDS fighting drugs. Both men have the AIDS virus but are being treated with a new class of drugs that have enhanced the quality of their health and lives. They are receiving protease inhibitors which have the effect of blocking an enzyme crucial to the life cycle of of the AIDS virus. These drugs are considered the most significant breakthrough in the fight against AIDS since the epidemic began. JOHN DUGDALE is a New York photographer who lost more than 75 percent of his vision to an AIDS related condition. But he continues to work as a photographer saying that he uses the fuzzy gray images that he sees as his guide. His photographs are collected in the recent book "Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall" (Twin Palms Publishing) ROBERT LEVITHAN (lev-eh-than) is a New York psychotherapist who primarly counsels people with AIDS. He also conducts workshops called "out living AIDS" for those with AIDS who are living longer than expected. He is currently writing a book about that is expected to be called "Outliving Myself."

A commentary from Jeff Getty, a man who has AIDS. One year ago, he was given a baboon marrow transplant in an attempt to restore his immune system. He is doing well, but Getty complains about a sense that the company Glaxo-Wellcome is keeping the AIDS drug 15-92 off the market because it wants to maximize its profits for the old AIDS drug AZT. Getty also says he thinks there has been a whole bureaucracy built up around AIDS, with people making six-figure salaries. In the meantime, those with the disease are dying.

Steven LaFon is the Associate Director of the Anti-Viral Clinical research for Glaxo-Wellcome. He says he empathizes with Getty, and that the company's researchers are working as fast as they can to get the drug 15-92 to the marketplace. He says although the results of trials have been very encouraging, it is still in the very early stages of the approval and marketing process.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from St. Petersburg, Florida - the site of two riots this fall. The city's racial divisions are deep and long-lived. Citizens in the city's black community fear the police; white residents say they don't understand the black community's frustrations.

that suggest the Republicans will retain their numbers in the House and Senate.

Scott has some thoughts on the upcoming election.

On the day before the Presidential election, senior news analyst Daniel Schorr sums up some of the lessons learned from this campaign season.

acquittal has forced LA District Attorney Gil Garcetti into a controversial campaign for re-election.