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working on political campaigns this year. From high schoolers to recent college graduates, the young political aspirants are getting hands-on experience in the election process.

Music reviewer Tom Moon listens to Odelay, the latest cd by Beck Hansen. Moon says Beck's music is a happy victim of information overload, filled with fun and odd musical juxtapositions. [Stations: The CD is called Odelay, by Beck. It's available on DGC Records (they're a subsidiary of Geffen).]

of campaigning. He travels to Ohio and Pennsylvania today.

Margot Adler reports that although most of the mainstream media has been debunking the story, a controversial account of the introduction of crack into the streets of Los Angeles... and its connection to the CIA and the war in Nicaragua... has been fueling black talk-radio shows for the past two months. Discussion is particularly strong on this topic on the Internet. It has led to demonstrations, a hunger strike, and even a Senate hearing.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a group of renegade advertisers who are breaking with the pack to OPPOSE pitching tobacco to children. Last August, the FDA established new limits on cigarette advertising. The tobacco and ad industries have formed a coalition to fight those limits. Now this breakaway group is launching an ad campaign to convince their advertising compatriots to get behind the government.

Robert Dornan now looks as if he's lost his bid to return to Congress for a tenth term. Latina challenger Loretta Sanchez is ahead by close to 1,000 votes, a week after the election, with only two or three thousand absentee and provisional votes still to count. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that it was absentee ballots and a strong Latino vote that overturned the fiery conservative in his equally conservative Orange County, California. Dornan is threatening to challenge the results, claiming that Democrats may have signed up ineligible immigrant voters.

a steady downturn in the rate of death from cancer in the United States since 1991. The decline is being attributed to a reduction in smoking, earlier cancer detection, and improved treatments.

Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about what the results of the election may be.

- NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on a real estate trend in that city which some say could endanger hopes of a lasting peace there. Traditionally, Jewish Israelis have lived on the west side of the city and Palestinians have lived on the east side. But recently a private Jewish group has begun buying properties on the east side and renting them to Jewish families. And critics warn that the trend is only adding to tensions between Arabs and Israelis.