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State and local officials buy electronic voting machines in hopes of avoiding the low-tech messiness of pencil marks on paper ballots and so-called "hanging chads." But some computer scientists say vote-counting computers are inaccurate. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on the British play that features a fictional George Dubya as its lead character who declares a war on tourism from his bunk bed. The play, The Madness of George Dubya, is from playwright Justin Butcher at the Teatro Technis, a small fringe venue in north London.

NPR's Nick Spicer talks with host Bob Edwards from Paris about today's NATO meeting on the French announcement that it will veto contingency planning for protection of Turkey in case of an Iraq war. Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Paris today.

Tonight marks the beginning of Yom Kippur -- a time for reflection and atonement in the Jewish faith. American Jews have had strong and often divided opinions about peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors -- for many the security of Israel is an issue central to identity as well as faith. The preponderance of Jewish opinion in America has supported the peace process. But now, says writer Samuel J. Freedman, many moderate Jews find themselves asking painful questions. Freedman has just finished a book on American Jews and he says many moderate Jews feel paralyzed and that the most hawkish predictions have come true.

Host Jacki Lyden talks to writer Nasdijj about his new memoir, The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams. Nasdijj, born on a Navajo Reservation in 1950, writes essays in this book that tell of his life growing up as the child of migrant workers, one white and one Navajo. The book also explores his bouts with homelessness, the people he met along the way, and the loss of his adopted son, who suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome.

The Hawkeye State has fewer people than it did in the 1980 census. State Governor Tom Vilsack would like to turn the population tide by recruiting people from around the world. Yet the state with the slogan "Fields of Opportunities" is still 96% white, and isn't used to immigrants. From member station WOI in Ames, Joyce Russell reports.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. Along with this week's winner, a surprise guest player joins Will and Liane. (This week's winner is Ellen Blackstone from Seattle, Washington. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station in Seattle and KUOP in Tacoma.)

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr offers an historical perspective on the week's events in Yugoslavia.

Jacki talks with journalist Rami Khoury, former editor of the Jordan Times and political analyst, about the conflict in the Middle East.

Jacki talks with protesters outside the Israali embassy.

The United States and Egypt launched an intense diplomatic campaign to stop the crisis between Isreal and Lebanon from escalating further. It erupted after Israeli border guards fired live ammunition at Palestinian protesters inside Lebanon, killing two and wounding 42. NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Beirut.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli about some of the problems that Yugoslavia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, will be facing over the next few weeks. Sylvia is in Belgrade.