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. Today, the Ford Motor Company will produce its two-hundred-and 50-millionth vehicle, AND this year marks the one hundredth birthday of automobile production in the U.S. We'll hear from Ralph NAder, New York City's traffic commissioner, a car loving poet, and from Tom and Ray, the hosts of Car Talk.

Bob Dole's campaign bus rolled through a rainy New Jersey today. Attempting to capitalize on what aides characterize a strong showing in the first presidential debate, the Republican nominee hopes his tax cut plan and focus on trust will appeal to the state's swing voters. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

Tess Vigeland of member station WBUR reports that the Boston Latin School has settled out of court with a family that sued the school to protest a special entrance provision for minority students. As part of the settlement, the city's school board will drop special racial admissions categories for the city's prestigious Boston Latin School, and for two other top schools. The student and her family sued after she was denied admission despite receiving higher test scores than some minority students who were admitted.

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell reviews the movie "Set It Off."

some parents in Southern California into keeping their kids indoors on Halloween.

The federal government's reports on the state of housing in the US have been sharply divided between the record number of Americans who own homes... and the fast-increasing number who live in so-called "worst case housing." Those are the people who are stuck in squalid conditions, or whose housing costs such a large part of their income that one more rent increase will leave them on the streets. NPR's John Nielsen explores the crisis facing the working poor and government policy makers.

this year, lots of people decided to stay away from the office for the whole week.

NPR's Eric Westervelt examines the debate over academic standards at the two-year schools.

Noah talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade where tens of thousands of demonstrators were in the streets for the tenth consecutive day. The protestors are angry because the government of President Slobodan Milosevic annuled the results of an election November 17th. Milosevic's party lost to the opposition. Re-run elections were held yesterday. Preliminary results indicate Milosevic's party won.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to withdraw from the market a widely used antihistamine called Seldane. It says that the very rare occurence of potentially fatal heart disease outweighs the drug's benefits. A new variant of the drug was just approved by the FDA four months ago, and the agency is advising patients to ask their doctors whether to switch antihistamines. NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports.