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Neal talks with Hugo Gassioles who just completed a 3- and-a-half-year, 12,000 mile, horseback journey from his native Argentina to the U.S.

NPR's Steve Inskeep looks at some of the claims that the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have made in recent television ads about their opponent's record. President Clinton and Bob Dole paint each other in the worst light, even though their actual positions on a lot of issues aren't all that different.

Neal offers a theory of the mysterious disappearance, in New York, of two film animation characters.

Scott speaks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about the budget agreement reached by the White House and Congressional negotiators after an all-night session.

About a half-million elderly immigrants receive assistance under the Supplemental Security Income program. It's an income assistance program that also entitles them to Food Stamps and Medicaid, which pays for nursing home care for thousands. Laws passed by Congress in the last term would make immigrants ineligible for the assistance. NPR's Vicky Que looks at the possible impact of the changes on a Vietnamese couple in Philadelphia, who are too old to work and have no family in the U.S. to help them. (An adopted son is in trouble with the law.) It's not clear that either local and state public service agencies or private organizations can or will step in.

This week, Chicago's O'Hare airport joins New York's LaGuardia airport in a test of a new weather prediction system that's designed to keep ice off planes in the air and on the ground. Aviation experts say it will keep planes flying on time and improve safety too. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

Commentator Elissa Ely wonders how she will introduce her new baby to her older child, a golden retriever named Sandy who is not used to sharing Ely's affection. The baby has yet to arrive, but Sandy seems to know what is coming.

and important science story of the year...the announcement that scientists had found possible evidence of ancient life on Mars.

Noah talks about the closure of independent radio station B92 in Belgrade today. The government claims that the station was shut down because its was operating illegally...but Radio B92 was one of only two media outlets, along with a student-run station, broadcasting information regarding the ongoing protests against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The station has now taken its message to the Internet.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone offers a progress report on television industry efforts to come up with a ratings system for its programming. The giant telecommunications law passed last year gave television a year to devise a plan of its own or face one imposed by the federal government. Although a final announcement on the ratings system isn't scheduled until later this month, details are filtering out. And some lawmakers and parents' advocates don't like what they're hearing.