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If you're looking to live a long life, the answer may lie in how kind and optimistic you are.

After catastrophic fires razed the forest that was the lifeblood of Greece's second largest island, residents are planning for a hotter, drier future — and demanding the government do the same.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Alex Azzi, editor of the NBC blog On Her Turf, about the Paralympics in Tokyo.

The Winston-Salem police chief said Mount Tabor High School went into lockdown as authorities arrived around noon on Wednesday to search for a suspect, who was later taken into custody.

Illinois State University enrollment dropped 2% from last year to the current fall term. But there are some encouraging signs.

Robert talks to Christopher Andrew, who collaborated with former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin to write the book, The Sword and The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. The book details how for 20 years Mitrokhin copied information from top secret documents in the KGB archives, and gives a rare inside view of the soviet spy operation. (7:45) The Sword and The Shield is published by Basic Books, September 1999.

NPR's John Ydstie reports President Clinton addressed a gathering of finance ministers and central bankers today at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The President announced the US will take steps to forgive the debt of some of the world's poorest countries. He said the money should instead be spent by poor countries on basic human needs.

A brief summary of some other important news in today's program.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on today's news conference by Vice President Al Gore. Gore, whose contest for the Democratic presidential nomination with Bill Bradley has considerably tightened, announced he is moving his campaign to Tennessee, and challenged Bradley to "lots" of debates. While some see the move to Tennessee as merely symbolic, it does allow the Vice President to reduce the size of his staff, already thought to be too large and lacking cohesiveness.

Linda talks to Nadine Selden of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from her office in Istanbul. Selden says relief efforts are still underway for people effected by the earthquake in Turkey six weeks ago. The most recent aftershock was this morning. Selden says that ten-thousand winterized tents are being prepared for people who have no permanent housing.