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NPR's Anthony Brooks reports from Seattle on the campaign trail, where protests and counterprotests by supporters of Democrat Al Gore and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader are overshadowing Gore's efforts to emphasize his health care policy.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Marshall Wittmann of the Heritage Foundation about the political implications of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's offer to President Clinton: increase the minimum wage in exchange for a cut in business taxes.

David D'Arcy reports on the dispute over ownership of a painting that the Nazis took from a Jewish art dealer in 1938 Vienna. Portrait of Wally, by Egon Schiele has been on loan to the Museum of Modern Art for the last two-and-a-half years. A federal judge ruled that the painting cannot be considered "stolen" because the American military returned it to the Austrian government in 1945. The Justice Department is asking the judge to reverse his ruling. The case has implications for the families of Holocaust victims, who are trying to recover art and other property that was looted by the Nazis.

Host Renee Montagne talks with NPR's Michael Sullivan about the trial of former Indonesian President Suharto in Jakarta. The accused was not present because his doctors say he's too frail to stand trial.

NPR Patricia Neighmond reports on a matchbook size electrical device which can be implanted under the skin of people who suffer from extreme pain. Electrical stimulation from the device can help block the transmission of pain from the nervous system to the brain. It offers relief to people who have reflex sympathetic dystrophy, the syndrome known as RSD.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that officials at the Hanford Nuclear Reservoir want to re-activate one of the site's decommissioned reactors despite public outrage.

In our latest installment of our monthly series One Hundred Years of Stories, Neenah Ellis talks with college professor Abraham Goldsteen who's 101 years old. Goldsteen has taught law for 70 years. He currently teaches at Baruch College in New York City. He began working as a child, 1913 to be exact, when he served as a telegram delivery boy. Goldsteen says he never married because he was afraid the expense of a family would make it hard for him to help care for his brothers and sisters.

NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the newest developments in research on narcolepsy.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on photographer O. Winston Link. A new exhibit of stunning black and white photographs documents the end of the era of steam locomotives in America.

Ina Jaffe reports that new Census information indicates that ethnic minorities will now constitute an majority of California residents.