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Scientists may probe distant galaxies and the depths of atoms, but they still don't know how to explain the dying wobbles of a spinning coin as it comes to rest. NPR's Joe Palca reports on some ground breaking experiments now taking place in laboratories across the world.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on US efforts to force the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan to hand over Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi Arabian terrorist who is suspected of planning the attack last month in Yemen on the USS Cole. Today the US and Russia will try to have the United Nations impose an arms embargo against Afghanistan.

The special education law signed 25 years ago today by President Gerald Ford profoundly changed the way the public schools teach millions of children with disabilities, requiring that those students be included in regular classrooms whenever possible. NPR's Robert Smith reports on the birth, and the legacy, of the law.

Alex van Oss reports on the latest exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., centered on the workplace. On the Job: Design and the American Office displays different office technology through the years while examining how changing attitudes about the workplace have changed its look.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on the practice of pill splitting by some HMO's. A public-interest law firm is filing a class action lawsuit tomorrow in California, charging that a large HMO there is forcing patients to split pills as a way to save money. The HMO denies the policy is mandatory and maintains that it is only suggested in a limited number of cases.

NPR's Mike Shuster in Jerusalem reports Palestinians see little difference between the main contenders in Israel's election campaign. Leaders of the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza vow it will continue no matter what the outcome of the Israeli election, expected next Spring.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and former Prime Minister Shimon Perez reached a ceasefire agreement last night. Israeli tanks have already begun to pull back and the army is re-opening communities it shut down during the conflict.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on the three-man crew of the International Space Station. An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have linked-up with the space station. The crew has a lot of work ahead of them to make the station livable, starting with life support systems.

NPR's Richard Knox reports on a ballot initiative in Massachusetts that aims to provide universal healthcare throughout the commonwealth by 2002 with its Question Five initiative. But while the initiative is attractive to voters, Health Maintenance Organizations say it goes too far and they have mounted a vigorous effort against it (4:06).

NPR's Margot Adler reports on a new play, The Exonerated, which is based on interviews with eleven people on Death Row who barely escaped being executed. The first performance featured ten actors who donated their time to the production, including Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, long-time death penalty opponents.