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NPR's Melissa Block reports from New York, where President Clinton was campaigning for both Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who's in a tight race for a Senate seat.

Correspondent Chris Morris gives a status report on the Kurdish rebel movement in Turkey. It's been just over a year since a cease-fire was declared, ending sometimes brutal violence. The situation has remained surprisingly stable since then.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on a growing movement for child-neutral policy making. Proponents say politicians who promote tax breaks and the like for families with children are ignoring eight-percent of the electorate that either doesn't want or can't have children.

In the wake of the excruciatingly close presidential race in Florida, NPR's Philip Davis reports on problems faced by Palm Beach County voters who mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore. And many Democrats contend that these lost votes may have cost Gore the presidency.

Commentator David Levin says that if there's one clear winner of our current economy, a silver lining in this dark cloud of corporate gloom, it's the word "brand." Everything is branded -- and the hipness of a brand is a great distraction from the layoffs and quarterly earnings reports of the actual company.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the long-running battle in Berlin over whether a city of 3.5 million people can afford three government-funded opera houses.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on the challenge of proving a company's claim that a cloned baby girl has been born. The proof will require DNA samples. And the trickiest part may be ensuring that the samples truly come from the baby and her mother.

NPR's David Schaper reports on a $6.6 billion plan to renovate O'Hare International Airport. But expansion of the nation's busiest airport may be shelved if the airlines can't pay for it.

Jerome Socolovsky reports on efforts in Madrid to reduce the city's noise pollution. A cultural habit of loud public behavior has made the going tough. But some progress is happening, by educating habitual noisemakers in an unusual way.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that goes on before a candidate officially declares his presidential candidacy.