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Dan Keating of the Washington Post talks to Linda about his article, which reports that problems with tires on Ford Explorer may go beyond tires made by Firestone. Keating says Explorers have a high rate of tire related accidents with Goodyear tires as well.

Linda interviews Sergeant Greg Williams of the California Highway Patrol about airbag theft. Some insurance companies and law enforcement agencies say the problem is on the rise. Airbags can cost as much as $2,500 to replace. (5:00) 15-second musical button played after story was by The Glands on their CD by the same name, copyright 2000, Capricorn Records, www.capri.corn.com.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark about Clinton Administration moves that could lead to a new Middle East summit aimed at halting the increasingly bloody confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians.

NASA unveils results from an unmanned space probe that reveal the universe's age, composition and fate. Scientists say the results mark a turning point in cosmology. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks with Mark Winegardner, the author and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Winegardner has been pegged by Random House to continue Mario Puzo's Godfather saga.

Noah talks to an out of work Serbian lawyer Biljana Obradovic. She lives in the town of Kraljevo. She says she and her husband have been anti-Milosevic for the past ten years. She has never found work and hopes the change in government will allow her to do so.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London that European Nations are preparing to lift sanctions against Serbia. European Union foreign ministers will meet Monday, and plan to announce an end to bans on investment, travel and trade.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on efforts on Capitol Hill to develop a "patients' bill of rights," which seems unlikely to be approved this year. Negotiators also are working on a "drug reimportation" bill, which would make it easier to import US made drugs after they've been exported, and sell them at lower prices than drugs intended for the US market. The drug bill's chances of becoming law are unclear. It is attached to a popular agriculture measure, and has a better chance of survival than if it stood alone.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Requiem for a Dream which opens in New York today without a rating, but with a theater-enforced ban on viewers under 17 years of age. The producers are protesting a rating of NC-17 from the Motion Picture Association due to the sex in the film. The producers claim the industry is over-reacting to election rhetoric. Even seasoned movie critics, however, find the sex hard to watch.

A cat trying to escape the rain sets off an unfortunate chain of events in Lebanon's capital.