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To meet a recent state law, all California hospitals must be made earthquake safe by the year 2030. The problem is 75-percent of the hospitals need work and the estimated price tag is 26-billion dollars. With two-thirds of the state's hospitals already operating in the red they're looking to the state and federal governments to help pay for the retrofitting. Kathy McAnally reports.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the final push towards election day for Al Gore and George W. Bush. With less than two weeks to go, the presidential candidates traded shots at each other while campaigning to hold states each had once thought guaranteed.

NPR's Jonathan Miller reports on the latest from Peru, where President Alberto Fujimori has announced a nationwide search for disgraced former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos' exposure in a corruption scandal last year weakened Fujimori's control of the country and led him to announce he will resign from the presidency two years early.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on attempts to rework the juvenile justice system. After juvenile crime dropped steadily last decade, many people are taking a look at the system and wondering if it's too heavy-handed. Nearly every state has made it easier to charge children as adults. Opponents to this policy say once a youth gets in the adult system, he's more likely to continue committing crimes. Several states are now considering a change in the way they try and sentence juveniles.

Mark Zdechlik of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the Justice Department's attempts to force Northwest Airlines to sell its controlling interest in Continental. The case could impact other pending airline mergers.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Ivory Coast where opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo seized control yesterday after military president Robert Guei fled the capital during massive public demonstrations. But the new government now faces protests by supporters of candidates barred from last week's elections.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the effect of technology on American lives. A new UCLA study found that a lot of Americans are logging on. The study showed little or no difference in the social lives of avid users and non-users. But it did reveal widespread concern about increasing lack of privacy resulting from the unprecedented ability of companies track and collect personal data (3:22).

Host Renee Montagne talks with Kate Betts, Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Bazaar, about the move by many American businesses to "business casual." Betts says the relaxed wardrobe rules have actually complicated the notion of office fashion.

N-P-R's Claudio Sanchez reports on a perennial election year issue: school vouchers. The issue is particularly controversial in Michigan, where a ballot initiative, known as Proposal One, has drawn both praise and criticism. School vouchers are also on California's ballot next month.

For a brief history of Ivory Coast, Linda talks with Jeanne Maddox Toungara, Professor of History at Howard University in Washington D.C. Toungara lived and taught in the Ivory Coast for fifteen years, and has written extensively on the country. She says Ivory Coast is a former French colony. Its capital city was once thought of as the "Paris of Africa."