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Michael Nestor, Liz Thompson and Richard Tierney rode in the last elevator down from Windows on the World in the moments before American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Hear their story.

Robert Siegel talks with Ambassador James Dobbins, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corporation, about the challenges of rebuilding Iraq after Tuesday's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

NPR's Lynn Neary reports on a new study by the Center for Excellence in Journalism that the public is increasingly skeptical of news reports because many view news organizations as immoral.

Chad Harbach [HAR-BOCK] argues that there's been a sea change in the literary world, as the center of power has moved out of New York City and into the nation's universities.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Dr. Claudia Kawas (KAY-was), associate professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University and Clinical director of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center, about studies suggesting that estrogen may help prevent Alzheimer's Disease.

Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel will be talking to James Thurber, Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, and to Neal Newhouse of "Public Opinion Strategies," a Republican polling organization.

The number of businesses owned by women in this country has increased sharply over the past two decades. In this piece, NPR's Chris Arnold profiles Chicago-based Women's Business Development Center, which has helped thousands of women launch their own businesses.

chief of the reservoir control center of the Army Corps of Engineers' Missouri River Division in Omaha, Nebraska. The melting snow in the Dakotas is testing the Corps' ability to use its dams to control flooding on the Missouri.

Daniel talks with 22 year old Elton Harito, an Albanian student living near the center of downtown Tirana, about daily life in the city in the wake of the country's recent upheaval. Harito says that during the day the city is calm - but the evenings are filled with gunfire.

Scott speaks with Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of Harvard University's Russian Research Center, about concerns over Russian President Boris Yeltsin's failing health. It was announced this week that Mr. Yeltsin would undergo heart bypass surgery at the end of the month.