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- On his 82nd birthday, Frankie Manning reminisces about how he came up with a new step for the Lindy Hop, a popular dance created by Shorty Snowden in 1927. Manning created his dance move in 1935 at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli describes secession, Italian-style. Members of Italy's most recent government talk about a split between north and south.

SWEEPSTAKES: Esssayist Tim Brookes responds to his latest weepstakes mailing.

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

to lower the number of cars on the island during tourist season. In the past, any car in line for the ferry before a certain time was guaranteed passage to the island that day. But beginning tomorrow, reservations are required two weeks in advance for a space on the ferry.

A few weeks before his suicide, Admiral Jeremy "Mike" oorda, Chief of Naval Operations, spoke peripherally about suicide in a speech. PR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr plays a portion of that speech, and iscusses the pressure Boorda was under from a number of different directions

- Israeli elections take place next Wednesday. Some half a million Israeli Arab votes could help decide the results. Although few Israeli Arabs are expected to vote for the Likud party, given the recent events in Lebanon, many are thinking twice about voting for Shimon Peres or voting at all. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Peter Kelsey from Sylmar, alifornia. His public radio station is KRCW in Santa Monica, California.)

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the closing of Sumner lementary school in Topeka, Kansas. The Sumner school was the focal point of he 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that became the landmark decision eading to national integration.

Commentator DAGOBERTO GILB on this trip to New York City with his son.

From WHYY, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on nearly 100 drug users who were rushed to Philadelphia hospitals overnight, after takeing a lethal form of heroin known as "homicide." Nearly a dozen remain in critical condition today.

Scott Simon speaks with reporter Edmund Roy about the aftermath of elections in India.