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NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on an e-book deal announced between Microsoft and Amazon.com. The deal follows in the wake of a similar deal Microsoft cut with Barnes and Noble.com that's already enabled the rival e-tailer to sell the new format of books.

NPR's Rick Karr reports from New York on the Millennium World Peace Summit of religious and spiritual leaders. Those attending the four day meeting at the United Nations are hoping to explore ways that religion can help prevent wars, and to create an advisory council to the U.N. Secretary General.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports that Vice President Al Gore took his campaign to Florida yesterday and launched a fresh attack on drug companies for their lobbying power in Congress. Today Gore is in Albuquerque focusing his attention on health care for children.

Howie Movshovitz of Colorado Public Radio examines Aiyana Elliott's new documentary called The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack. The film is about her father Jack Elliot, a folk singer who studied under Woody Guthrie. Elliott says she made the film in order to focus attention on the contributions her father made to American folk music.

Steve Inskeep reports from the Pentagon that US officials say they have evidence shedding light on this month's tragedy aboard the Russian submarine Kursk. They say underwater sounds monitored by US vessels indicated one of the Kursk's own weapons misfired, causing the sub to sink, and costing 118 lives. Russian officials have voiced various theories about the cause of the accident, including a collision with another vessel in the Barents Sea.

Julie McCarthy reports from the Netherlands on today's developments in the trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Defense attorneys demanded that the United States produce more classified documents relating to a star prosecution witness, Abdul Majid Giaka. The court today saw previously blacked-out passages of CIA cables about Giaka, a Libyan informer. The defense said those passages cast doubt on Giaka's credibility. The prosecution wants to use Giaka to link the defendants to the bombing, which left 270 people dead.

Frank Browning reports on an effort to reduce the number of heroin overdoses in San Francisco. The city has the dubious distinction of the highest rate of heroin overdoses in the country. A group called UFO -- You Find Out -- is trying to teach drug users how to shoot up more safely, and medical techniques like CPR to save lives.

Host Renee Montagne talks to author, Michele Serros about her new book, How to Be a Chicana Role Model. The book tells the story of a Chicana writer who's trying to find a way to embrace two very different cultures--without losing her identity in the process. (6:53) Stations: How to Be a Chicana Role Model by Michele Serros is published by Riverhead Books; ISBN: 15732

Robert talks to Richard Dawson, President of the Guild Of Air Traffic Control Officers in Taplow, England, about the increasing number of incidents of radio hackers posing as air traffic controllers contacting airline pilots and giving them false information. The British Civil Aviation Authority reports there have been 19 incidents in the last 8 months. These malicious radio transmissions have not yet resulted in disaster, because the pilots have called the tower to confirm. The tower has then told them the information was false.

Host Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Sarah Chayes about French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement's threat to leave his cabinet post. Chevenment is upset over Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's plans to grant some autonomy to Corsica to reduce separatist violence there. As a defender of France's highly-centralized state, Chevenement has said that giving special status to Corsica will lead to more demands for special treatment from France's diverse regions.