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Linda Wertheimer talks with Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, about the recent fluctuations of the stock market, and what's to be expected in the future.

President Bush today outlined his thoughts on trade in the Western Hemisphere at a meeting of the Organization of American States. The president said he hoped to see completion of a Free Trade Area of the Americas -- potentially the largest free trade zone in the world -- by the year 2005. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Cisco Systems grew in breathtaking fashion to become one of the world's most valuable companies during the technology investment boom of the late '90s. But now Cisco is being hit hard by the economic slowdown. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Gaza reports on the Israeli army's thrust into Palestinian-ruled territory. Israeli forces withdrew Tuesday from small areas of the Gaza Strip they seized Monday after an attempt to end Palestinian mortar attacks on Israeli towns and settlements.

NPR's Ivan Watson in the city of Cotonou in the West African country of Benin reports on the mystery of the whereabouts of nearly 200 slave children. They were thought to have been on board a cargo vessel. But when the ship docked at Benin's main port, there was no sign of the child slaves.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court on mushroom ads. A mushroom grower is trying to get out of paying a share of the cost of a national ad campaign organized by the government. United Foods says it can promote its product better with its own ads.

Reviewer Alan Cheuse tells us about a new novel by Allegra Goodman: Paradise Park.

T.V. critic David Bianculli reviews last nights premiere of NBCS The Weakest Link the latest British-imported game show.

Grace Spruch has a thousand stories about the squirrels she's been inviting into her fifth floor Greenwich Village apartment. She shares some of those stories -- and squirrel time -- with NPR's Margot Adler. (6:00) Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels, by Grace Marmor Spruch, is published by Johnson Books. ISBN # 1555662579.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports there is growing concern about damage to Machu Picchu, the spectacular, 500-year-old Inca ruins perched on a high mountaintop in Peru. Custodians of Machu Picchu may be more interested in immediate profit than preserving the priceless collection of temples and dwellings.