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Several drivers managed to get the marsupial into Nadia Tugwell's car. While waiting for people from the Adelaide Koala Rescue Center to arrive, the animal explored her car.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest says, at more than 3,500 calories, it's the "single unhealthiest" meal among 200 chain restaurants.

Almost three years ago, National Public Radio moved its headquarters to the Gallery Place neighborhood of Washington, DC. Since then, we've noticed that this historic neighborhood is changing more rapidly than any of us could have imagined. We talk with architectural historian Linda Lyons about the neighborhood's past and its plans for its future. We also talk with John Stranix, contruction project manager of the new MCI Center, a retail complex and future home of the Washington Wizards basketball team.

Noah visits the office of Second Harvest, in Chicago. Second Harvest operates a network of food banks around the country, reaching, it's estimated, 26 million hungry people a year, in shelters, daycare centers, food pantry operations. Mary Picket and Debra Keegan of Second Harvest explain how it works: Second Harvets recieves a donation of ice cream or cereal or surplus salmon form Alaska, lets the food banks know by fax, then arranges shipping. The food banks pay only the shipping costs.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports from Brussels on the appointment today of a panel to adjudicate an argument between the United States and the European Union. The argument centers on the Helms-Burton law, which is aimed at stopping non-U.S. firms from doing business with Cuba. Nearly all of the 130-countries belonging to the World Trade Organization argue that the law violates open-trade rules and extends U.S. judicial reach beyond its national territory. The U.S. claims the law is a matter of national security and not a trade matter.

We talk to some voters and non-voters to get their thoughts on the elections, and why they did or did not vote today: Laura McCallum visits folks at the Witney Senior Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota; Gretchen Lehman talks to customers at the Kay Kitchen, a cafe in St. Joseph, Minnesota; Keith McKeen interviews voters at polling stations in the second district in Maine; Andrea Deleon does the same in the first district in Maine; Josh Levs talks with people in downtown Atlanta; Steve Bussalachi talked with voters at the polls in Madison, Wisconsin, and with shoppers at the city's Southtown Mall.

Robert talks with Marshall Goldman, the associate director of the Davis Center of Russian research at Harvard University and a professor of economics at Wellesley College. They'll discuss who might be in line to take over for Boris Yeltsin, as the Russian president's health continues to be a concern. The recent election left no clear successor, and the current Russian rules do not specify who should take over in the event that the President is incapacitated...although there are clear guidelines for who would be in control if the President should die.

The activities away from the podium one year ago in Washington were not so much oriented around rhetoric, but personal feelings. We hear from Robert Ward, an autoworker from St. Louis, talking about why he came to the Million Man March. He says black men tend to walk away from each other - and this was a day to embrace each other. We also hear vendors and the way the day sounded from the center oof the throng.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that researchers for the first time are reporting possible success using gene therapy to treat lung cancer. Researchers at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston conducted an experiment in which they attempted to compensate for damage to a gene involved in lung cancer known as P53 in nine patients who had failed to respond to standard therapy. Three patients showed regression of their tumors, and in three others, tumor growth appeared to stop. Although the findings are promising, the researchers cautioned that they are very preliminary.

Debris collected from space shuttle Columbia will be trucked to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida so investigators can sift through the pieces looking for clues about why the shuttle disintegrated. Meanwhile, an external panel takes over leadership of the probe into the Columbia catastrophe. Hear from NPR's Lynn Neary and NPR's Joe Palca.