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Alex van Oss reports on the latest exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., centered on the workplace. On the Job: Design and the American Office displays different office technology through the years while examining how changing attitudes about the workplace have changed its look.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Bob Stern, President of the non-partisan Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, about state ballot measures. Voters in nearly every state face more than 200 propositions, and Stern says that may be too much of a burden.

The Bush campaign is arguing before the Florida state Supreme Court today that hand recounts are biased and imprecise. But the vote-counters who have spent long hours examining ballots are more confident in their results. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on the workers whose efforts are at the center of the national attention.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Andy Kohut, director of the Pew Center for the People and the Press. Kohut says that a new poll shows Americans are largely satisfied with the 2000 presidential campaign, despite a still uncertain outcome. However, the same poll finds a public disdainful of both the press and of pollsters.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Andy Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, about the results of the first poll to measure President Bush's approval ratings. The poll suggests that Americans like the president, but remain uncertain about his policies.

Michele Norris talks with Dr. Jeffrey Guy, director of the Vanderbilt Regional Burn Center, about the rise in methamphetamine lab burn victims he sees at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Iraqi city of Samarra is calm Saturday after thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers fought their way to the center of town Friday. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

President Bush endorses the 9-11 Commission's recommendations for the creation of a national intelligence director and counterterrorism center. But the offices will not be established inside the White House, as the commission proposed.

A public interest group -- The Center for Public Integrity -- expresses concern about the lack of transparency regarding contracts the government is awarding for reconstruction work in Iraq. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

Writer James Bowman, resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is providing poems about the Republican Convention each day this week. Tuesday, he notes that try as they might, the GOP has tough competition from popular television programs.