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NPR's John Burnett tells the stories of two men who worked at the Windows on the World restaurant, and perished in the attack on the World Trade Center. Two families -- one in the Bronx, one in Mexico -- are left wondering what to do now.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Colour by Rose Tremain. Set in New Zealand in the 1800s, the story centers around the Gold Rush there.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (AP) - Verizon Wireless says it plans to add 200 workers at a new call center in Chicago's western suburbs beginning next year. The…

Deborah Amos talks to Dr. Joanne Lynn - the director of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying at George Washington University. She is the lead author of a new study that reveals that doctors really aren't able to adequately predict how long a terminally ill patient will live.

Scott talks to Stuart McHardy, Director of the Scots Language Resource Center in Perth, Scotland. A large percentage of the population of Scotland speak Scots. There is also a written Scots tradition however, until this year, the language was not included in public school curriculum.

Linda talks to Andy Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about a new poll that ascertains Americans' opinions about the Presidential campaign. Most people are bored with the campaign and most expect President Clinton to win.

to declare part of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay a national landmark. From 1910 until 1940, the island served as a detention center mostly for Chinese immigrants.

Host Scott Simon talks with Dick Howard, professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia, and Nina Easton, author of Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade about what it means to be a conservative today.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on the legal aftermath of this weekend's U.S. Supreme Court ruling to suspend the Florida recount. The Court is back in center stage hearing oral arguments over the recount this morning.

Lynn Neary talks with Robert Force, Niels F. Johnsen Professor of Maritime Law and co-director of the Tulane Maritime Law Center in New Orleans, La.