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The fate of a resort condominium on one of North Carolina's barrier islands has become a touchstone of sorts for the debate on whether to build on these fragile, constantly shifting islands -- and whether to save the buildings that fall victim to the hurricanes that sweep across the region. Aileen LeBlanc of member station WHQR in Wilmington, North Carolina reports.

Researchers have greated the most detailed map yet of where genes are located on the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Approximately 20% of the 100,000 genes in humans are now located on the map, and this should help other researchers figure out how these genes affect human health. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The federal government's budget deficit was a big campaign issue four years ago, but this time around it seems to have faded, partly because both parties have taken balanced budget pledges, but also because the deficit is much smaller now. NPR's John Ydstie reports that budget experts say the deficit may be down, but it's not out.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service says it deported a record 67-thousand illegal aliens in the fiscal year that ended last month. But, critics say in another area the INS has been sloppy, allowing tens of thousands of aliens to become naturalized citizens despite their criminal records. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

The public university system in Minnesota is trying to change the tenure system. Martin Kaste [KAH-stee] of Minnesota Public Radio reports that some professors are trying to unionize to fight the changes, but others fear a union could bring as many restrictions as the proposed tenure changes.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that the mayor of Jerusalem is about to be indicted for fraud and falsifying documents. The Israeli Attorney General says those illegal activities occured six years ago when the mayor, Ehud Olmert, was the treasurer of the Likud party...the party now in power in Israel.

A former White House employee has told Senate investigators that she informed ex-personnel security chief Craig Livingstone that FBI background files were being gathered on former presidential aides. That's contrary to testimony from Livingstone. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that the FDA will now allow experimental procedures to be used in life-threatening situations where neither the individual nor a member of the family is able to give informed consent. Communities and hospitals will set the standards for when such decisions will be made. It may promote advances in emergency care, but experts say monitoring for abuse is crucial.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports on today's recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop Carlos Belo and resistance leader Jose Ramos-Horta. The two men have worked for a peaceful solution in East Timor, which has been in turmoil since Indonesia invaded it in 1975.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem that after another round of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at Taba today, there is still no indication that progress on the main issue of an Israeli withdrawal from Hebron has been made. The Israeli and Palestinian negotiators express very different views of how the talks are going.