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Mike Schmit from Markesan, Wis., grew a pumpkin weighing over 2,500 pounds. But the pumpkin, which was the biggest one in the running, was disqualified because of a fingernail-sized crack.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the good news and bad news for Medicare. The good news is experts believe the program will remain solvent for an additional four years. The bad news is that though both Congress and the White House have pledged to reform Medicare, the task remains a monumental one. And as more baby boomers edge toward retirement, the longer lawmakers wait to act, the more difficult reform may become.

Shes up for an academy award for her portrayal of the mother of a drug addict who is also an addict herself in the film –Requiem for a Dream.— This is her 5th nomination and could be her second win. She won the Academy Award for the 1974 film –Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore.— Burstyns other films include –The Last Picture Show,— –The Exorcist,— and –Same Time, Next Year— (she starred in the Broadway version too and won a Tony).

ook critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews –Seabiscuit: An American Legend— about the famous racehorse of the 1930s by Laura Hillenbrand.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports on a new exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. It features toys made by impoverished children in third-world countries.

Over the past few years, employees of high-tech firms in the San Francisco Bay Area have watched the value of their stock portfolios soar. Many of those workers are Generation X'ers who've never known a bear market. NPR's Elaine Korry sat down with three young investors to find out how they are riding out the downturn in the market.

Russell Lewis of member station KPBS reports on the U.S. Navy's civilian ride-along program. The visitors aboard the USS Greeneville when it struck a Japanese fishing boat last month were participating in the program. Since last month's collision, the Navy has made some changes to its guest policy in the interest of safety.

From member station KPBS, Scott Horsley reports on what today may bring in California's ongoing energy crisis. Yesterday, Californians saw rolling black-outs for the first time in more than two months.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the Federal Reserve's consideration of an additional interest rate cut in hopes of curbing the economic slowdown.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Murray Weiss, criminal justice editor for the New York Post newspaper about Abraham Abdallah, a bus buy who is suspected of stealing millions of dollars from such famous people as Steven Spielberg and Michael Bloomberg.

NPR's Robert Smith continues Morning Edition's literacy series by visiting two classrooms -- both with children with outstanding reading skills, but with radically different teaching approaches.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on a group of mid-western farmers coming to Washington D.C. to lobby for government price supports for their crops. Many farmers opted out of the support in the late 1990's, but now say the decline of Asian markets is forcing them to ask for government help again.