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NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports that at least 50,000 of the striking Verizon Communications workers are back on the job today as the two-week strike against the largest local phone company winds down. The unions said they were happy with terms of the deal, which gives them better pay and better benefits; more important, from their perspective, the unions have increased their ability to organize the company's wireless and Internet divisions. Analysts say the settlement is being closely watched by telecommunications industry.

Host Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about political events this week. Now that the Republican and Democratic conventions are out of the way, both Al Gore and George W. Bush are hitting the campaign trail with more vigor.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the latest loss of power for Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Over the weekend, voters in Chiapas elected opposition party candidate Pablo Salazar as the state's governor.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the growing political clout of Chile's native Mapuche Indians. Although timber companies hold the title to much of the country's valuable forest land, the Mapuche claim it belongs to them. They've occupied and set fire to some of the land. The timber companies remain unsympathetic, but other parts of Chilean society are beginning to consider the Mapuche's views.

Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio reports on a summer camp that promotes bonding between children and their grandparents. Camp Sagamore is located in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and is run by Elderhostel.

Host Renee Montagne shares letters from listeners.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports that Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is assembling a federal task force to monitor airline performance after a summer travel season marred by thousands of flight delays.

Jyl Hoyt of member station KBSX in Boise reports efforts to battle the Rankin fire in central Idaho. This year's western wildfires are the worst in nearly half a century.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Maurice Isserman, about his biography of the late political activist and Morning Edition Commentator, Michael Harrington. Harrington's book, The Other America, had a profound effect on the 1960's debate over race and poverty. Harrington introduced the term, 'the culture of poverty,' which described poverty in socio-economic terms. He was a democratic socialist, who advocated the 'politics of coalition.' (8:30) Maurice Isserman's biography is titled, The Other American: the Life of Michael Harrington is published by Public Affairs; ISBN: 18916

New research suggests that transplanted brain cells can help some people whose brains have been damaged by a stroke. As NPR's Joanne Silberner reports the technique has been tried on only a few patients. But the results are promising.