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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo that another suburb that was once home to Serbs has been handed over to the Muslim-Croat Federation. Muslims from Sarajevo are slowly moving back to Ilidza (ill-EE-juh), returning to homes they abandoned four years ago. Security is provided by by NATO troops along with Muslim and Croat police.

A survey in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that it's not unusual for terminally ill patients to ask doctors to help them die. Nor is it that rare for doctors to comply. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that the survey comes on the heels of a controversial decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, holding physician-assisted suicide to be a constitutional right.

Tristan Clum of member station KNAU reports on documenting dendroglyphs...tree carvings...near Flagstaff, Arizona. Starting in the late 1800's, sheepherders, many of from the Basque region of Northern Spain, carved basic messages or elaborate images into the bark of aspen trees in this area. Now the trees are dying, and historians are trying to compile information before it's too late.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS in San Diego reports the first region in California to completely deregulate its electric industry is now facing sky-rocketing electricity bills. Consumer advocates in San Diego have asked state officials to re-impose price controls after the price of electricity more than tripled this year.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on Mexican president-elect Vicente Fox's plans for restructuring key government ministers in an effort to fight endemic corruption. Fox is stripping the all-powerful Interior Ministry of much of its duties, and creating a new ministry in charge of federal police and intelligence services. He's also taking some powers away from the attorney general's office.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports that Vice President Al Gore has attacked Republican Congressional leaders as part of his campaign. He blames them for holding up essential legislation which could help millions of ordinary Americans in order to serve the interests of corporations and wealthy donors.

Police in Kentucky are reluctantly preparing to auction off all firearms they've confiscated, in accordance with a new law that goes into effect this week. Proceeds from the sales will be used to buy bullet-proof vests for police officers. Many police believe guns used in crimes should be destroyed, not recirculated. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

In the first of a four part series, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the debate in Congress over whether the proposed national missile defense system is realistic. The 60-billion-dollar system is designed to intercept a missile aimed at the United States, but as a test failure over the weekend showed, it's far from reliable.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that a small company in North Carolina is pioneering a new approach in its attempt to develop a vaccine against AIDS. Scientists have tapped public money and a charity, as well as venture capital, to move an intriguing idea from the laboratory toward the marketplace. Untraditional approaches like this seem to be needed to surmount the many technical and practical difficulties in developing an AIDS vaccine.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports that Republican candidate George W. Bush is campaigning in California, a state many believe has already been won by Vice President Al Gore. Yesterday, Bush tried to show that the Republican Party is not hostile to immigrants, he also took time to question the handling of the national parks by the Clinton administration.