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NPR's Andy Bowers reports on how some Angelenos are dealing with the uncertainty over the outcome of the presidential election. Students in a high school government class are having a ball, a city councilman is having trouble getting people to focus on local business and foreign tourists are amused.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on two teens who've been charged with a felony hate crime for pelting Jews with marbles. The boys are both of Palestinian descent, and though no one was hurt in the incident, it has increased tensions in some city neighborhoods.

David Schaper reports on the official reopening of Chicago's storied Wacker Drive, home to large rodents, cabbies, delivery trucks and smart commuters. The road has two levels, surface and lower, and threads through the city's downtown. The new road, following a two-year facelift, is intended to relieve gridlock.

From Chicago Public Radio, Jody Becker reports on concerns of some African-American parents in Evanston, Il., that busing their children to integrate the district's schools hasn't worked. They want a new school built right in their neighborhood, even though it would upset the racial balance in the rest of the city's schools.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including State Department spokesman Philip Reeker; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Sen. John Edwards (D-NC); Sen. Dean Barkley (I-MN); Secretary of State Colin Powell; and President George W. Bush.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Louis P. Masur, author of 1831: Year of Eclipse (Hill and Wang/2001). Masur, who teaches history at the City College of New York, talks about some of the key events of 1831: the rise of the abolitionist movement, Nat Turner's rebellion, the tension between states' rights and national priorities, and the arrival of the steam locomotive in the United States.

Martin Wells of member station WHYY reports on archaeologists who have been excavating a site in Philadelphia that dates back to the days when the U.S. Constitution was being debated. The four block area was home to a diverse cross-section of the city's population nearly 300 years ago.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports that an International Olympic Committee delegation has arrived in Beijing, first stop on a tour of cities bidding to host the 2028 Olympic Games. In preparation for the visit, China has launched a cleanup that includes painting winter grass green, painting buildings a monochromatic gray and trying to get citizens to stop spitting in public.

Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.

In the southern Sri Lankan city of Galle, the number of those killed by Sunday's tsunami reaches 23,000. Across much of southern Asia, contaminated drinking water and the lack of sanitary facilities threaten the lives of survivors. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Jason Beaubien.