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The attacker grabbed the officer's gun and fatally shot himself, the agency adds. The officer was identified as George Gonzalez, a veteran who served in Iraq, by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.

It's no accident that the track feels fast to runners. The Italian company that designed the track says its goal is to take "human speeds to levels never reached before."

A year ago today, Zapatista rebels began their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Since then, there has been an assisination, the economy nosedived and peso was dramatically devalued. Daniel talks to NPR's David Welna in Mexico City about one of the worst years in the country's history.

NPR's Anne Garrels was in the Chechen capital of Grozny and reports on the scene there... burned out Russian tanks, a few Russian prisoners of war, and determined Chechen fighters.

Daniel talks with author Jayne Anne Phillips about her latest novel "Shelter," which takes place at a summer camp in West Virginia. Phillips writes vividly and poetically about the experiences of adolescent girls at the camp ... a place of seeming innocence but one in which passion, danger and perversity all emerge to change their young lives forever.

This is the first of four reports featured this half hour about what changes the country expects from the new Republican congress to be sworn in this week. In Boston, Anthony Brooks of member station WBUR examines the promises the new congress has made to reform welfare and what it may mean to people who now depend upon it.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman examines the issue of crime in a city that barely gave it any thought until a few years ago. Now with crime on the increase, citizens in Washington State want to know what their leaders in the other Washington are going to do to make them safer.

Many Americans are still complaining about the state of education in America. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a "charter school" in Michigan... one of many such special schools across the country that are providing an alternative to a standard public school education.

Wade Goodwyn reports on the the status of efforts to find the more than 150 people still missing form the bombing in Oklahoma City. Heavy rains and stong winds have hampered efforts and increased fears that the building is unstable and could collapse further.

Jacki talks to Mindy Cameron of the Seattle Times, Tom Bray of the Detroit News, and Nick Monsurat of the Burlington (VT) Free Press about the first 100 days of Congress.