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Commentator Martin Bernstein tells how type-A's can survive through this long weekend of baseball-watching on TV.

- Jackie speaks with Al Cardenas (car-DANE-us), vice chairman of the Florida state Republican Party. Cardenas outlines the GOP's strategy for winning Flordia, long a Republican stronghold but now a crucial state that is up for grabs in the November election.

discredit the President but says so far, they have come up with little proof to back up.

- We hear tape of people attending today's annual display of the massive AIDS quilt on the Mall in Washington. One family tells us they came to the Mall to unfurl for the first time a quilt panel in honor of their mother, who recently died of the disease.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the unprecedented amount of campaign money the parties have amassed in this election cycle, and the new ways they are spending it. The parties have found new loopholes in the federal election funding laws and exploited old ones more than ever before.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the threat posed to Haiti's fragile democracy by thousands of disgruntled former soldiers. There have been attacks against government targets by soldiers who are without jobs or money, and several former members of the military have been arrested on suspicion of plotting against the government of president Rene Preval.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that two weeks after the revived Palestinianian-Israeli peace talks began with promises of around-the-clock negotiations with a US negotiator, the talks have now stalled and the US mediator, Dennis Ross, has decided to fly home. Israelis blame Palestinians and the Palestinians blame the Israelis.

All Things Considered asked several commentators to talk about issues that they felt had been forgotten in this year's campaign. Commentator Walter Olsen is sick of every issue in this campaign being represented as a children's issue. Just once, he says, he'd like to hear the candidates talking for and about grown-ups. All the regulating and restricting of children, for their protection, eats away at the freedom of all Americans.

At least twenty people have been killed in a Taleban missile attack in Afghanistan...all of them civilians. The attack coincided with attempts by anti-Taleban sympathizers to oust Taleban forces from a mountain pass outside Kabul. The BBC's Monica Whitlock reports.

, best known for their kitchen appliances and outdoor gas grills. The company seems to be on the road to recovery thanks to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, a flamboyant chief executive known for rescuing ailing corporations. Sunbeam plans to cut its workforce in half, from twelve down to six thousand, and drop most of its ancillary product line.