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Noah talks with four different youngsters -- ardent baseball fans all of them -- who are rooting for their home teams in the National and American League playoffs. We'll hear from kids in St. Louis, Atlanta, New York, and Baltimore about why they think their team is going to make it to the World Series.

Commentator Marianne Jennings has had it up to here with the proliferation of web sites...do we really need this many? Everyone--from the FBI to the makers of Gatorade--is getting into the act. As she navigates the treacherous surf of www.com, she wonders if one can still get information the old fashioned way.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the lack of excitement in Sunday night's debate may have dissapointed some, but he applauds the return to civility--which may even bring the presidential campaign closer to discussing concrete issues.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that in Sunday's presidential debate Robert Dole tripped up on the facts in criticizing President Clinton's handling of foreign policy. Dole's biggest error was in accusing Clinton of being the US president who had sent the most troops abroad in history, a fact which he should have known was wrong from his own service overseas in World War II. But Clinton too stretched the truth some, taking credit for foreign policy successes in Europe that more rightly belonged to his predecessor, President Bush.

, just three months after an armed insurrection broke out. Authorities were relieved that voting was peaceful. It's the first significant election in Mexico since major electoral reform went into effect.

Banning Eyre reviews "Sarala: Hank Jones Meets Cheick-Tidiane Seck and the Mandikas". Eyre, who has lived and studied music in Mali, finds that American jazz pianist Hank Jones, now 79 years old, uses his well-honed jazz sensibilities to mesh perfectly into the traditional music of that west African country.

The contest between veteran Republican Senator Larry Pressler and his Democratic challenger Rep. Tim Johnson features what most people would define as everything good and everything bad about politics today. The candidates present voters with clear cut ideological choices on issues from taxes...Pressler is solidly in favor of "smaller government"...to the Farm Bill (Senator Pressler is highly in favor of the changes that were made in the Farm Bill, while Rep. Johnson has been less enthusiastic). Both candidates have held serious issue debates, even as they lob harshly negative ads at one another. NPR's Brian Naylor traveled to South Dakota and filed this report.

Lobbies - NPR's Kathy Schalch reports that the environmental lobby is focusing its campaign contributions on about 12 Congressional races, in an effort to make for a more environment-friendly legislature after the November election.

have filed an application with the Treasury Department, registering their intention to accept a billion dollar grant from Libya. The government could attempt to block the transaction under the new anti-Terrorism law, which makes it a criminal act for a U.S. citizen to engage in financial dealings with any country on the State Department list of nations suspected of sponsoring terrorism. Libya is on that list. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam appear ready to challenge the law in court.

including chocolate candies known as Frango mints.

NPR's Martha RAddatz reports that the Pentagon has had to deal with delays in its attempts to identify the number of US soldiers that may have been exposed to chemical weapons during the Persian Gulf War. It seems that the computer model the government is using may need more work.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr takes issue with a recent magazine rticle which diminishes the historical import of President Franklin Delano oosevelt. October is "Roosevelt History Month".