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Medical labs and drive-in banks are still using the pneumatic tube, whose heyday was back in the 19th century when the device was a means of sending messages from building to building. The tube made a comeback in the 1970's when engineers figured out how to make it gentle enough for hospitals to transport blood samples. Joel Obermayer reports from Danville, Pennsylvania.

Host Bob Edwards talks with reporter Carlotta Gall of The New York Times. They discuss the returns from Sunday's elections in Montenegro, which could move the region toward separation from Serbia.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the sinking sales figures for personal computers.

It's National TV Turnoff Week. Washington, D.C., fifth grader, Lidia Jean Kott talks about what it's like to live without television all 52 weeks of the year.

NPR's Nancy Marshall reports on a scam that many consumers who shop over the phone are discovering: buying clubs. The services add you to their membership list, and then add their membership fee to your credit card bill without the customer's consent.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports from Cotonou, the capital of Benin, on the practice of child slavery in West Africa.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the goal-setting agreement signed at the Summit of the Americas this past weekend. Thousands of protesters outside the conference did not seem to distract the leaders of western hemisphere nations from planning a "Free Trade Area of the Americas" that would expand NAFTA to include 34 countries.

Lisa visits with three teenagers in Vienna, Virginia, to learn about the ingenious uses to which they're putting Napster, the on-line music-swapping service. As they tell it, Napster is about more than just a free ride.

NPR's Guy Raz sends a radio postcard from Berlin on opening day of the NFL-Europe season, and a game between the Berlin Thunder and the Barcelona Dragons.

Satire from songwriter William De Fotis.