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Noah talks to Dr. William Fair, chief of urology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York City, about the basics of prostate cancer: who it affects, when it strikes, and its diagnosis and prognosis.

City's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is challenging two provisions of the new immigration and welfare laws in federal court. NPR's Margo Adler reports. (4:30) [outcue: "... It will be up to the federal courts to decide whose claim is superior. I'm Margo Adler reporting."]

- For the first time in half a century, workmen are cleaning up Grand Central Station in New York City. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports much of the work involves cleaning off the layers of grime that have obscured a celestial mural on Grand Central's high ceiling.

For more than three decades Guatemala has been in the midst of a civil war that has cost tens of thousands of lives. Today, that bloody war is coming to an end with an official ceremony in Guatemala City. Daniel talks with NPR's David Welna about the significance of the ceremony and whether or not peace and justice will finally come to Guatemala.

Commentator Patt Morrision describes how Los Angeles voters kept their city, a mecca of giant divorce settlements, from entering into one of its biggest break-ups yet.

The retirees of Sun City, Arizona, are on guard against a crime wave of sorts. The thievery is a thorn in the side of local nurseries, too.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at Jerusalem's Hebrew University about the violent clashes spreading from the troubled areas of Gaza and the West Bank into the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports from the port city Norfolk, Virginia in wake of a bombing attack Thursday in Yemen of the Navy destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, which left 17 crew members dead or missing and 39 people injured.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports from New York on the end of the World Series. The Yankees finished off the Mets last night with a 4-2 win in the five-game series. Their victory left half the city to party, and the rest to mourn.

The Flint Hills in central Kansas are covered by tallgrass prairies that once spread across much of the Midwest. Now 11,000 acres of that land are being set aside as a national preserve. Matt Hackworth of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.