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which begins today. The justices will examine some very controversial issues, including the right to doctor-assisted suicide, Presidential immunity from civil lawsuits, English-only laws and gun control.

Commentator Mickey Edwards discusses the Lexington, North Carolina story involving a first-grade boy who kissed a little girl at school...and who got in a lot of trouble. He thinks that the grownups involved in the story are the ones who should stand in the corner.

Thirteen All Things Considered commentators narrate a spooky story they collaborated on. It's a story of a lonely chicken salesman and his voyage of self-discovery. The story takes him on an eerie train ride, to a farmyard populated by bizarre poultry and Yiddish-speaking farmers. The authors passed the story around by e-mail and fax, chapter by chapter. They are Alan Cheuse, Bailey White, Leon Wynter, Laurie Anderson, Andrei Codrescu, Bill Harley, Daniel Pinkwater, Joyce Maynard, Bob Garfield, Amy Dickinson, Teller, Marion Winik and Kevin Kling.

and the future of the National Basketball Association...tonight the league begins its 50th season. He says the sport fits America's appetite for speed and our television habits, just like baseball meshed with radio and the slower pace of life in the past.

Republican Presidential Nominee Bob Dole's plans for a four-day, around-the- clock marathon campaign trip until Tuesday's election. Dole said he intends to 'shake things up' during the final 96 hours before the election.

political contributions can be hard to distinguish. While it's illegal for a U.S. political party to accept money from a foreign corporation, it's not against the law to take money from a domestic subsidiary of a foreign company.

to have an operation on his appendix.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on today's release of an interim report from the House Ethics Committee into allegations against House Speaker Newt Gingrich. An investigative subcommittee has been looking into the relationship of GOPAC, Gingrich's former political action committee, to a college course that Gingrich taught from 1993 to 1995.

Pan Am Flight 21 from New York to Miami took off on schedule this morning. Nothing unusual there... except the name of the airline. Pan Am is back in the air again today after going out of business in 1991, the victim of years of mismanagement and a terrorist bombing. The new investors who bought the right to use the Pan Am name are hoping they can use that name to succeed against heavy competition. NPR's Jim Zarroli has a report.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the United States' long history of involvement in Middle East diplomacy reduces President Clinton's political risk in orchestrating this week's emergency summit.