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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Chris Hoffman from Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.)

Liane speaks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about presidential campaign activity in the wake of developments in the Middle East and on the eve of the final debate in St. Louis on Tuesday between Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush.

A new law restricting the number of years families can remain on welfare has taken effect in Ohio, where some 3,800 families will no longer receive monthly checks from the government. Another 1,900 will go off the rolls next month. Bill Cohen from Ohio Public Radio reports that welfare advocates are up in arms about it.

Liane speaks with Oxford University Fellow Theodore Zeldin about his new book Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives. (Hidden Spring). Zeldin says it's time for a NEW conversation that includes all of society and all aspects of our lives.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr considers the future of the Middle East peace process.

Commentator Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer prize winning author who has written two books about disease in Africa, says though much about Ebola is a mystery, there is also a lot experts do know. She says the spread of the Ebola virus has been aided by the squalor of third-world hospitals, corruption and war. And she makes an argument for the first world to get involved in the fight against Ebola.

U.S. Researchers claim to have revived bacteria that have spent the last 250,000,000 years in suspended animation. The research could establish a new record for oldest living creatures ever found and raises the possibility of life being able to survive long enough the travel between planets. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

The newest CD by jazz violinist Regina Carter, Motor City Moments, features compositions by her fellow Detroit natives like vibraphonist Milt Jackson and Marvin Gaye. Carter is garnering recognition for her jazz interpretations of pop-based material. Reuben Jackson has a review. (4:30) Motor City Moments, by Regina Carter is copyright 2000 on the Verve label, catalog # 314 543 927-2, see http://vervemusicgroup.com.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on Palestinians' frustrated hopes for the peace process at Oslo.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports today, a federal appeals court released the final report of Independent Counsel Robert Ray on the firings of White House travel office employees in 1993. As Ray had announced in a preliminary report, he finds that Hillary Rodham Clinton gave investigators factually inaccurate statements as to her involvement with the firings. But he also says she may not have known they were false because she may not have known the influence she had with officials who made the firing decision.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda has killed 39 people, an infected dozens more. Noah talks to Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, Medical Superintendent for Saint Mary Locar Hospital in the town of Gulu, where a team from the World Health Organization arrived today. Lukwiya says that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization will be helpful in setting up laboratories to help with early detection of the Ebola virus.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Rabbi Jerome Segal, President of the Jewish Peace Lobby and author of the book, "Negotiating Jerusalem." They discuss the origins of the current violence in the Israeli-occupied territories and how it might affect prospects for a Mideast peace agreement.