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NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that a traditional game of deliberately submitting to electric shocks is still being played in Mexico as well as Central and South America. Practitioners approach people, often in bars, and for a small fee, attach them to a device that applies an electric shock, which intensifies until the client can no longer take it. People who play call it say it's a fun game of endurance. But some American doctors question the safety of the practice, especially for people who have undiscovered heart problems.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Mitrovica that nearly a year and a half after NATO forces entered Kosovo, this city remains a hotbed of ethnic tensions. Albanians and Serbs are locked in a stand-off over apartments, and jobs in the region's rusting heavy industry. But the United Nations administrator of the city, Bill Nash, is beginning to get the two sides to cooperate. Nash says the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade should make it easier for moderate Serbs to deal with the ethnic Albanian community.

Carole Rabel reports on an exhibit of the work of Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. The muti-media work, about life in Nazi-occupied Europe, is making its US debut at the Music of Fine Arts in Boston.

Scott with some thoughts about Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy.

Scott speaks with Robert Beecroft who spearheads the US State Department's efforts to train foreigners in landmine excavation.

Scott speaks with the mayor of South Padre Island, Texas, Ed Cyganiecwicz. South Padre Island has banned the necktie.

Scott speaks with Martha Stewart about her new CD Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled that a man facing capital murder charges was not deprived of a fair trial even though his lawyer slept through the trial. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

NPR's Anne Garrels previews today's parliamentary elections in Kosovo.