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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the official opening of the IMF/World Bank summit Tuesday.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the elections in Yugoslavia. No official results have yet been released, but opposition says that their leader Vojislav Kostunica is ahead. This is in sharp contrast to government's statements that President Slobodan Milosevic is winning.

Formula One Grand Prix auto racing is back in the United States for the first time in ten years. The race was held in Indianapolis Sunday and drew an enormous television audience worldwide. Jason Paur reports.

Tom Gjelten of NPR News reports that the United States and other western governments today put intense pressure on Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to admit defeat in yesterday's presidential election. The United States, Britain and Germany challenged Milosevic to accept his fate or face what one European leader called "devastating consequences."

Commentator David Weinberger realizes the current vogue in business to "multitask," but argues that few do it, and no one does it well. Slicing your attention, he says, is like slicing a plum -- you lose some of the juice.

Noah interviews Virginia State Trooper Mike Scott about a weekend assault on cars traveling down Interstate 95 by monkeys armed with pieces of fruit. Scott was hailed to the scene by a motorist who said a monkey had thrown a banana at her car. When they returned to the scene together, a trio of spider monkeys was tossing crab apples from an oak tree alongside the highway. Scott says he has no idea where they got the apples and bananas, nor where they came from.

Last week, writer Dawn Langley Simmons died. She was the author of over 20 books, including novels, biographies, and children's books. But perhaps her most remarkable creation was her identity. Simmons was born in England as Gordon Langley Hall. She was born with a sexual abnormality, and though raised as a boy, considered herself female. She later had a sex change operation, and changed her name to Dawn. Writer Jack Hitt talks to Robert about Dawn Langley's tempestous life.

Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore addressed a group of senior citizens in St. Petersburg, Florida today. Billed as a major policy address, today's speech was designed to draw a sharp contrast between Gore's prescription drug plan and that of his Republican rival George W. Bush. The Bush campaign quickly accused his opponent of making up facts about the Texas Governor's Medicare plan, as the presidential race enters its final two weeks. NPR's Anthony Brooks is with the Gore campaign today.

NPR's Tom Goldman talks with host Mike Shuster about the news from the Sidney Olympics that at least one American athlete has been involved in a doping cover-up.

Jason DeRose of Chicago Public Radio reports on the traditional passion play of Oberammergau, a Bavarian village south of Munich. The play's been criticized for years as being anti-Semitic. But this year, play producers have tried to change that.