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NPR's Renee Montagne talks with Mat Gissel, who was recently crowned the National Monopoly Champion. This weekend in Toronto Canada, Gissel and champions from 29 other countries will compete for the title world's greatest monopoly player, and $15,140 dollars in real prize money.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem, where the peace deal brokered in Egypt is due to be implemented today. Continued clashes between Palestinians and Israelis still threaten the agreement.

With the debates behind them, the presidential candidates met for a different audience tonight -- both George Bush and Al Gore attended the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. Instead of policy statements, this time the candidates traded quips and barbs. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports from New York.

Two years after congress passed the Children's On-line Protection Act, the law to regulate internet pornography is still held up in court. But the COPA commission has been meeting regularly to find suggestions to the problem. They release their findings today. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about the World Series. Game one of the Subway Series between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets is tomorrow night at Yankee Stadium.

Commentator Richard Rosenfeld talks about how the issue of religious tolerance was an issue in the Presidential campaign two hundred years ago. Then the candidates John Adams and Thomas Jefferson battled over the formation of an official state religion. Today the role of spirituality in public life is again being debated.

From Peoria, Illinois, WCBU's Jonathan Ahl reports on family farmers from Greece, Poland and the Midwest who are looking for advice on how to save family farms. They say they need new tools to keep market and pricing systems from forcing them out of business.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the current state of the Stock Market. Yesterday, the Dow hit its fifth worst single-day decline ever. Turmoil in the Mideast and a major spike in oil prices are two culprits in the market's dive.

Ev Ehrlich comments on the Nobel Prize in Economics. Economic theory has changed over the years to reflect contemporary conditions, and the choices for recent prizes reflect those shifts.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on the United States' reaction to the crumbling situation in the Middle East in the face of recent terrorist acts in Yemen against the U.S. and Britain and increasing violence in Israel.