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Commentator David Frum says the United States has an exceptional energy policy for the past twenty years and should keep it that way.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Yugoslavia electoral body ruled that President Slobodan Milosevic and challenger Vojislav Kostunica must face a run-off vote on October 8 because neither won a majority in the first round. Yesterday, thousands of demonstrators gathered in the streets of Belgrade to protest the decision and to show their support for Kostunica who says he is the clear winner of Sunday's election.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the OPEC summit in Caracas, Venezuela -- where Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is relishing his country's newfound importance in global energy policy and the high price per barrel of oil. Leaders of OPEC nations are making plans at the meeting for future oil production strategies.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Copenhagen, where voters are preparing to take part in tomorrow's referendum on Danish membership in the European Monetary Union. A "yes" vote would mean adopting the Euro. The Danish Prime Minister handed out roses in the streets today, hoping to persuade Danes to vote for membership. The Euro's tumbling value in recent weeks could dampen support for joining the single currency. But "no" vote activists say their main objection to the Euro is that abandoning their national currency amounts to a loss of national sovereignty. Polls indicate the vote is too close to call.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that Maryland plans to become the first state to voluntarily stop tobacco farming. The government program would pay farmers for choosing to stop growing tobacco.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about a fight between Israeli police and Palestinian demonstrators at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Director of the United Hosital Fund's Project on Family Caregiving in an Age of Change, Carole Levine. She brings her professional and personal life to bear on her work with the project. Since 1990, when her husband was critically injured in an automobile accident, she has been his caregiver. Levine new book which came out this week is called, Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers. Levine is also the founder and executive director of The Orphan Project: Families and Children in the HIV Epidemic. She was also awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in AIDS policy and ethics. (Original Broadcast: 12/07/99).

Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush stopped in Saginaw, Michigan today and made energy policy his theme. Using a manufacturing and engineering center as his backdrop, he talked about the growing economy's need for growing fuel sources -- and the importance of keeping those sources politically and militarily secure. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Vice President Al Gore took to the trees today at the Audubon Naturalist Society's headquarters on a wildlife preserve in Maryland. The Democratic presidential candidate's subject was energy -- its costs and its effects on the environment. NPR's Steve Inskeep has this report.

NPR's David Welna reports from Green Bay, Wisconsin that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are willing to give-up on the eleven electoral votes from America's Dairyland. Green Bay is the most hotly-contested region in the state -- and much of the battling is happening on television -- where Mr. Gore's and Mr. Bush's ads are saturating the airwaves.

Those on both sides of the abortion debate are saying that whoever wins November's presidential race can have an impact on the availability of RU 486, the abortion drug. But as Julie Rovner reports, there are limits to the influence any president can have on the availability of this drug.

Record producer and folkorist Chris Strachwitz. In 1960, Strachwitz started Arhoolie records as a leading outlet for many types of music that were disappearing or outside the mainstream. Today, the label has hundreds of titles, featuring blues, cajun, country and bluegrass, Tex-Mex, and many other styles. Strachwitz has just received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award, the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Strachwicz also has a new CD anthology of his Arhoolies recordings. (Original Broadcast: 2