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It's not the most orthodox of majors, but a small college in Vermont is now offering a degree in adventure recreation. With a boom in so-called adventure travel, the business of leading and outfitting demanding wilderness trips is among the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry. Some students want to make a career of it. Pippin Ross reports.

World leaders are traveling to Egypt for an emergency summit they hope will bring an end to violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories. From Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

With the presidential race now in a dead heat, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush are campaigning hard in key battleground states. Florida is one of them with 25 electoral votes at stake. NPR's Phillip Davis reports on why Florida has turned from solidly Republican to a state ripe for either candidate to win or lose.

The price of a college education has tripled in the last two decades. It's harder for poor families to meet the rising costs. NPR'S Claudio Sanchez profiles one student at the University of Maryland and her attempts to make it through.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to Tickey Pule, director of the Botswana National Museum, about the return of the remains of an unknown African man, which had been on display in a museum in Spain for over 100 years. The remains, called El Negro in Spain, were stolen from a grave in the early 1800s by two Frenchmen. Pule explains the importance of having the remains returned to Botswana for a proper reburial.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Egypt where Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat are meeting today for a hastily convened summit. President Clinton is in Egypt to mediate the talks, with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and several Arab leaders in attendance.

From Jerusalem, NPR's Jennifer Ludden offers a reporter's notebook on the crumbling relationships between Israelis and Palestinian neighbors.

Movie Critic Bob Mondello reviews a new feature film starring Joan Allen, as a vice-presidential nominee named in a sex scandal.

When a group of alcohol and nicotine addicted pigeons are 'freed' from their cages at a University of California laboratory, crazy things can happen. Host Lisa Simeone talks to satirist C.D. Payne about his latest creations, the feathered characters of the novel Frisco Pigeon Mambo, (Aivia Press, 2000).

Lisa talks with Shibley Telhami, a Middle East scholar at the University of Maryland about the current prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. On Monday, Egypt is hosting an emergency summit designed to bring an end to recent violence that has taken scores of lives. Many high level diplomats will be on hand including President Clinton who will travel to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.