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NPR's Melissa Block reports on the race for the Senate in New York State. Both Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, and GOP Congressman Rick Lazio are taking to the streets, and to the airwaves, to try to drum up votes.

NPR's Joshua Levs reports from member station WABE in Atlanta on To Conserve a Legacy a new traveling exhibition of African-American artwork. For years, black colleges and universities collected many paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs from students, teachers, or independent artists. Together, two hundred of these works chronicle the expression of blacks during different times in the nation's history. The exhibit is currently in Atlanta, and is scheduled to go to Durham, North Carolina, Nashville, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Tomorrow, a 19-year old princess from Bahrain will ask a U.S. immigration judge if she can remain in the country with the U.S. Marine who smuggled her out of the kingdom last year. Host Jacki Lyden talks with Dwight Davis of the San Diego Union Tribune about the case that could cause a riff between the U.S. and the royal family of Bahrain.

NPR's Alex Chadwick remembers a talented producer of documentary programs. Josh Darsa died last Fridayat age 67. He was responsible from one of NPR's earliest hallmark documentaries "Cowboy."

Writer Jeff Goodell grew up in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, in a sleepy town named Sunnyvale. Suddenly, the computer revolution took off, changing Sunnyvale from a community of orchards and tract homes, to one of start-ups and millionaires. At the same time the computer industry was skyrocketing, Jeff Goodell's parents got divorced, his father's landscaping business started to fail, and his brother developed a decades long substance abuse problem. Host Jacki Lyden speaks to Goodell about his book, Sunnyvale, which tells how the rise of Silicon Valley, and the fall of his family are intertwined. (Sunnyvale: the Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family; Random House, 2000)

Jacki talks with Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago about the Palestinian perspective on the peace talks. Khalidi says that even if negotiators can come up with solutions to difficult problems like the sovereignty of Jerusalem, it will be difficult to sell the ideas to either Palestinian or Israeli publics.

While the Arkansas governor's mansion is being renovated, the governor's family will be residing in a triple-wide mobile home on the mansion grounds. Robert talks to Janet Huckabee, First Lady of Arkansas, about her family's new accommodations.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that use of a more extensive screening test for colon cancer could greatly improve doctors ability to catch the disease in its early stages. But some health experts say it's not clear yet that the test is worth the cost and effort. The research appears in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The diamond industry is proposing strict measures to stop the funding of African wars through diamond sales. So-called "conflict diamonds" from countries like Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have helped to fund bloody wars. A proposal to stop the practice was made at a conference called the World Diamond Congress today in Belgium.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator Frank Deford about his book The Best of Frank Deford: I'm Just Getting Started. The book reflects on the larger world of American culture through sports.