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Control of the U.S. House of Representatives may come down to only a few congressional races November 7th. Republicans have just a seven-seat edge in the House, so vulnerable seats are attracting intense national interest and streams of soft money. One endangered Republican seat is in the Republican stronghold of Utah. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Last April, Arizona implemented a program to clear up the smoggy skyline. The idea, give people tax breaks for buying clean cars. The problem, the state was a bit too generous, and citizens a bit too eager. Now the program's threatening to eat up seven percent of the budget. NPR's Mark Moran reports.

NASA unveils results from an unmanned space probe that reveal the universe's age, composition and fate. Scientists say the results mark a turning point in cosmology. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Snowpack in Northern Arizona and other parts of the West is down 50 percent, causing concern among seasonal employees and small towns that depend on consistent snowfall to bring in ski-season tourists. Sadie Babits of Arizona Public Radio reports.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that more than 12,000 items supposedly from the shuttle Columbia have been collected near the Texas-Louisiana border. NASA officials say they're making good progress in their investigation into why the shuttle went down.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports on active seniors who compete in Master's Athletic Competitions, wowing researchers with their ability to maintain strength and fitness. Scientists expect the aging baby boomer generation to be just as active, but the fitness-fate of Generation X remains a big question mark.

Thousands of U.S. troops are arriving each day in the region where a war with Iraq would be fought. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

California is making plans to return the Compton school district -- long considered one of the worst in the state -- back to local control after seven years of state oversight. NPR's Robert Smith reports state officials have made some progress in cleaning up the schools in Compton, but the district still has a long way to go in terms of higher student achievement.

Jonathan Ahl of member station WCBU in Peoria, Illinois reports on a joint effort between Caterpillar and Daimler Chrysler to build cleaner burning engines for the work trucks and other heavy machines both companies produce. Tough emission standards in the U.S. and Europe were an incentive for the two companies: allowing them to split the cost of development.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports on an alleged Cuban spy ring now on trial in Miami. The men claim they were fighting anti-Castro Cuban-American factions. But prosecutors maintain they were attempting to infiltrate the Pentagon's southern command headquarters in Miami. Either way, it is another chapter in the continued bitterness between the U-S and Cuba.