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Butler Cain of Alabama Public Radio reports on the controversy over a landfill planned for Lowndes County, along the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights Trail. A judge has ordered Alabama's Department of Environmental Management to stop approval of the landfill, but the company planning to build it says the order doesn't apply to them.

A fire in a crowded nightclub in Caracas, Venezuela, kills 47 people. Between 300 and 400 people were inside the club, in the old part of downtown. Firefighters responded quickly, but flames had already engulfed the building. The cause is unknown. Phil Gunson reports.

From member station WNYC, Beth Fertig reports on the passing of an era in the New York City schools, the last of the city's school buildings that get their heat from antiquated coal-fired boilers, and the workers who stoke them.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports that President Bush meets today with Republican Democratic congressional leadership. It's part of Bush's continuing effort to build support for his legislative agenda.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Arye Carmon, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, about the challenges that confront Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon in building a working coalition in the Israeli Parliament. His Likud party only holds 19 of 120 seats.

Planners at San Diego's International Airport are thinking about making their airport truly international...by building a cross-border terminal with its neighbor, Tijuana International. The idea is to allow travelers the advantage of service at both airports without the usual headache of taking their cars through border check points.

Alex van Oss reports on the latest exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., centered on the workplace. On the Job: Design and the American Office displays different office technology through the years while examining how changing attitudes about the workplace have changed its look.

Host Alex Chadwick talks to former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta and former Reagan political director Frank Donatelli on how the new president- whoever he turns out to be- might try to build a rapport with the public and Members of Congress.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that this week residents of Ellenton, South Carolina are gathering in their former hometown once again. Fifty years ago, the town was bought by the Federal government and flattened to build a nuclear weapons plant. This week, residents are looking back on the town they were forced to leave behind.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a pair of ballot initiatives aimed at limiting the development of new office buildings in San Francisco. The measures were motivated by the expansion of many dot-com businesses into a neighborhood that has been home to low income Latinos and artists.