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

- Also in Washington today, thousands of Hispanic Americans converged on the White House to protest recent legislation that restricts the rights of legal and illegal immigrants. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the mood was festive but the demonstrators acknowledged they face an uphill battle to recapture lost political ground.

- 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.

- 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.

The heaviest rain is expected immediately along the Gulf Coast from Tampa to Cedar Key, where an additional 3-4 inches are possible.

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

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.

Tomorrow, Election Day, political races across the country will be decided and many more local propositions will be placed before the voters for ratification. Public attention has been focused on just a few of them. Robert and Linda talk about aspects of the election season that have escaped widespread public notice: a candidate for the Colorado state senate who has thrown her support behind her opponent; a Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey who does not speak English, and others.

It's been five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union but it will take many more years to undue much of the ecological damage done during Soviet rule. Case in point: one of the greatest environmental disasters in the world today is the drying up of the Aral Sea in central Asia. In the 1950s, when the Soviets decided to increase their cotton crop, two rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea were used to irrigate the cotton fields of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan; the flow of water to the Aral Sea was reduced by ninety percent with disasterous results. NPR's Mike Shuster visits an Uzbek town that used to one of the Aral Sea's biggest ports--now the sea is thirty miles away and the town of Mujnak (Moy-NAHK) is plagued by both massive unemployment and serious health problems brought on by the Aral's demise.

For the past two weeks, NPR's Mike Shuster has been travelling through the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, following the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road... from Iran through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and now Tadjikistan, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 1992. He spoke with Robert Siegel from the town of Garm, about 100 miles east of Tadjikistan's capital, Dushanbe. He says that the people in Garm are proud of their new-found independence, but are struggling to rebuild a city that has essentially collapsed with the departure of the Soviets and a four year civil war.

Noah talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about conditions in the eastern Zairean city of Goma, recently captured by Zairean Tutsi rebels. The rebels escorted foreign journalists into the city today. The city is for the most part calm, though reporters were only allowed to see certain areas. Goma is the site of camps housing hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees; the battle for the city left the refugees cut off from food and medicine.

The BBC's Daniel Lack reports from Islamabad on the ouster of the government of Benazir Bhutto. A caretaker Prime Minister and nine cabinet members were sworn in this morning to replace the Bhutto government, which has been accused of widespread corruption. She is currently under an unofficial form of house arrest.

about the results and implications of last night's presidential and congressional races.

Noah talks with Ethan James, former rock musician and punk rock producer, now a passionate hurdy-gurdy player. He has just put out his first CD featuring the hurdy-gurdy. It's called "The Ancient Music of Christmas." James brings two hurdy-gurdies into the studio - one he made himself, and the other from Hungary. He demonstrates how they sound and describes what they look like.

in sight to the conflict between government authorities -- inheritors of the old Soviet system -- and the Islamist, pro-democracy opposition.

It employs technology that General Motors accuses one of its former top executive of stealing, when he went to work for V.W. in 1993. Jose Lopez insists the idea for the plant at Resende, Brazil, is entirely his own.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that with all the fuss about the revised Consumer Price Index and the effect it will have on social security recipients, no one seems to have noticed that the welfare reform bill will plunge many more of our nation's children into much deeper poverty.

Congressman Wes Cooley was indicted for making false statements about his military record in Oregon state voters' pamphlets. The indictment says that congressman - who was elected in 1994 and didn't run again this year - lied when he said that he was a member of the Army Special Forces in Korea. From Portland, Colin Fogarty reports.

will change how the sport does business. The five-year labor agreement was ratified last week by the players. It includes a revenue sharing system and a luxury tax imposed on the five richest teams.

as the second ranking executive at Walt Disney. Before joining Disney in 1995, Ovitz was considered the most influential talent agent in Hollywood.

The FBI is sifting through thousands of new tips, looking for evidence pertaining to the Olympic bombing investigation. NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that the agency is pleased with the response generated by the agency's announcement earlier this week that a reward would be given to anyone helping to solve the crime.

victory over Governor William Weld.

There is more to presidential politics than just the Republicans and Democrats fighting over control of the White House. Although Ross Perot did not receive as large a proportion of the vote in yesterday's election as he did in 1992, he made a significant showing in several states. We consider the fortunes of Perot, Ralph Nader, and other "minor party" presidential candidates.

since the election. Speaking to Democratic leaders, he emphasized his new centrist stance.

General Barry McCaffrey, wrapped up two days of talks in Mexico City yesterday. The U.S. officials and their Mexican counterparts promised stepped-up efforts to stem the flow of narcotics across the border.