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Movie Critic Bob Mondello reviews a new feature film starring Joan Allen, as a vice-presidential nominee named in a sex scandal.

The price of a college education has tripled in the last two decades. It's harder for poor families to meet the rising costs. NPR'S Claudio Sanchez profiles one student at the University of Maryland and her attempts to make it through.

When a group of alcohol and nicotine addicted pigeons are 'freed' from their cages at a University of California laboratory, crazy things can happen. Host Lisa Simeone talks to satirist C.D. Payne about his latest creations, the feathered characters of the novel Frisco Pigeon Mambo, (Aivia Press, 2000).

From Jerusalem, NPR's Jennifer Ludden offers a reporter's notebook on the crumbling relationships between Israelis and Palestinian neighbors.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to Tickey Pule, director of the Botswana National Museum, about the return of the remains of an unknown African man, which had been on display in a museum in Spain for over 100 years. The remains, called El Negro in Spain, were stolen from a grave in the early 1800s by two Frenchmen. Pule explains the importance of having the remains returned to Botswana for a proper reburial.

It's not the most orthodox of majors, but a small college in Vermont is now offering a degree in adventure recreation. With a boom in so-called adventure travel, the business of leading and outfitting demanding wilderness trips is among the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry. Some students want to make a career of it. Pippin Ross reports.

In a week of turmoil, the politics as usual that make up the U.S. presidential campaign took a rest. Vice President Gore returned to Washington while Governor Bush began to incorporate the international tensions into his campaign rhetoric. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Lisa talks with Shibley Telhami, a Middle East scholar at the University of Maryland about the current prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. On Monday, Egypt is hosting an emergency summit designed to bring an end to recent violence that has taken scores of lives. Many high level diplomats will be on hand including President Clinton who will travel to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports from the port city Norfolk, Virginia in wake of a bombing attack Thursday in Yemen of the Navy destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, which left 17 crew members dead or missing and 39 people injured.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in the Gaza Strip reports on some of the victims of the past two weeks of clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian protestors. Even in grief, many of the families of the slain Palestinians say the uprising must continue.