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The federal government is looking at a new generation of safety technologies for the airline industry. The effort follows a year in which scores of people died in two highly publicized crashes of TWA and Valuejet planes. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports the new safety measures could save lives, but the cost will be high and industry executives are worried about having to bear the burden.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is located in Los Angeles. It is the creation of a visionary named David Wilson---who for the past decade has been displaying exhibits that stretch the boundaries of imagination and reality--the horn of a woman from the year 1688, a bat which can supposedly pass clean through solid objects, microminiature sculptures...including Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs on the shaft of a needle. Each exhibit is documented---and Wilson appears to believe that all of it is absolutely genuine and the stories surrounding them are true. Our guide through the museum is New Yorker Magazine writer Lawrence Weschler (WESH-lurr)---who chronicled this museum in his book Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders ---his audio portrait is produced by David Isay.

of the NTSB hearings on the crash of Valujet Flight 592, which crashed in the Florida Everglades last May.

are limiting the number of new homeowner policies they write in coastal communities because of recent hurricane-related losses.

Commentator Jacob Weisberg wonders about the latest category of crucial swing voters- "soccer moms." He says this categorization of some women is as misleading as the "angry white male" voter from the 1994 election. If you define these women as suburban and professional, they do lean toward Clinton--but this year, it's the men that are actually more fickle and likely to make up the "swing vote."

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Chris Douridas-- who has a radio program Morning Becomes Electric on our member station KCRW in Santa Monica. Douridas talks about how everyday he gets around 50 CDs and tapes from musicians who want to be on the radio. He listens to all of them and today introduces us to the gentle giant of Hawaiian song -- he weighs some 700 pounds, but plays the ukelele gently and beautifully with incredible precision. Douridas introduces us to this artist's rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

John Parker was a slave, an abolitionist and a businessman. Recently, his memoirs were discovered and published, providing a vivid account of this remarkable man's life. Actor Mississippi Charles Bevel reads excerpts from Parker's book.

to court over its undercover reporting methods that exposed allegedly poor hygiene at many of the supermarkets.

on the second presidential debate held in San Diego last night.

On the first anniversary of the Million Man March, Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke before a large crowd of supporters in front of the United Nations building in New York. Farrakhan called the event the World Day of Atonement, and asked the United States and the United Nations to lift sanctions on Libya, Cuba and Iraq.