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Planned Parenthood has invited an adoption counselor into its downtown Chicago clinic. Chicago Public Radio's Shirley Jahad reports the unusual alliance of an abortion provider and adoption agency is meant to give women more information and choices. The new partnership is drawing some praise and some fire.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports the head of the military junta that took power in Ivory Coast last Christmas Eve has been forced out by violent street protests. The demonstrations against General Robert Guei began yesterday when he refused to recognize his apparent defeat in Sunday's election and declared himself the winner. The protests increased today, despite the presence of troops who responded to rock and bottle-throwing with gunfire, most of it into the air. The public, enraged by ten months of governmental instability and continuing economic decline, refused to be intimidated and gradually, some members of the military began joining the protests. General Guei finally stepped down and is reported to have fled the country. The presumed winner in the election, socialist Laurent Gbagbo, has assumed power, but the election results still are likely to be contested by other candidates.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on efforts to treat heart attacks that occur in public places. In recent years, airports, casinos and other crowded facilities have installed automatic heart-shocking devices and trained workers to use them. They're trying to improve the survival rate after a heart attack by restarting the normal rhythm of the heart as quickly as possible.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that Wall Street gave AT&T a thumbs down on its plan to split into four separate companies. Shares of the long distance and cable TV giant fell as much as 13 percent. The restructuring of AT&T will create separate shares for AT&T's wireless, cable TV, consumer and business operations. The company has been under intense pressure from shareholders to do something about it's sagging stock value.

Noah talks with Cheryl Stearns, a world-class parachutist from Rayford, North Carolina about her plans for an attempt to break the high-altitude skydiving record. Stearns says she's going up 165,000 feet in a helium balloon to jump. Stearns says there have been several people in the last forty years to experiment with what she calls "high-altitude ejections." She leaves for Austin, Texas tomorrow to start training with her team.

Morning Edition's monthly series on the lives of centenarians, One Hundred Years of Stories, continues this morning. Neenah Ellis tells us about Marion Cowen, who worked on Broadway and knew film stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. She also tells us about the death of another centenarian, Ruth Ellis, who was featured earlier in the series.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on what's being accomplished in the last days of this Congressional session. A foreign aid bill, which includes more than four hundred million dollars for international family planning assistance, was passed yesterday and sent to the White House. It also includes more than four hundred million dollars in debt relief for poor nations. But immigration reform and tax relief remain in limbo.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports the upsurge of violence in the Middle East has sparked a new phenomenon in that region...cyber war. Hackers have attacked the Israeli Army and Foreign Ministry websites, among others, apparently in retaliation for a cyberattack on the website of the Lebanese Islamist group Hizbollah.

In the final part of our Changing Face of America story Mom's Good Move, the moving van comes to Peg Collison's house where she has lived for almost 30 years. She and her partner Chaz have decided to move to a retirement community. Moving day is sad and emotional---their new home is the "University Retirement community" in Davis, California--a new facility. The place is much better than the children had expected, except that all the residents are over the age of 65. Peg has to meet new friends, find a new church and new children to tutor. But rather than finding a sedate life, sitting around, reading books -- she is just as busy as she was in her old home -- and seems just as happy.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports the subway series could be all over tomorrow. The Yankees beat the Mets in the fourth game of the World Series last night to take a three-to-one lead over their rivals.