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Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the tall tales about word origins, and how hard they are to eradicate.

Noah talks with Beverly Lennen, Deputy Chief of Police for Santa Fe, about the usually high number of calls about skunks in her city. The animals are having a hard time finding food because of the dry weather, and so have come to town for Santa Fe cuisine. They've been feasting on leftovers in garbage bags and compost piles.

TV Producer Bill Moyers. His new series, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, explores the way people's lives end in this country. Most people die alone and uncomfortable, in a hospital, instead of at home surrounded by those they love. The four-part series premieres Sunday September 10th. Check local listings for times. For more information, look at the show's website at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/about/index.html

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the activity in Congress. Political scuffles between the White House and Congress are expected to crop up in the weeks before Election Day.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Ted Clark about the UN Millennium Summit in New York City.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports committee members from both the House and Senate questioned Bridgestone-Firestone and Ford Motor Company executives on Capitol Hill yesterday about the recall of more than 6 and a half million tires. Legislators are promising more hearings in the future. The questions centered upon how both companies handled the recall, and why it took so long for officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a recall.

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on Democratic Presidential nominee Al Gore's remarks about his newly released economic plan, published in a paperback book. At Cleveland State University yesterday, the Vice President talked about some of the proposals in the book, titled Prosperity for America's Families.

Linda talks to Rick Karr of NPR News about a ruling today by a federal judge against MP3.com, in a lawsuit by Universal Music Group. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff says a message must be sent to Internet companies to deter copyright infringement. He awarded Universal $25, 000 per CD copied by MP3.

The debate over whether the Anasazi ancestors of today's Pueblo people were cannibals has gone on for forty years. John Nielsen reports that new evidence from a long hidden Anasazi Site called Cowboy Wash near Sleeping Ute Mountain in Colorado has added new spice to the debate. The research is published in this week's edition of the science journal Nature.

The twelve men a capella group called Chanticleer was formed in San Francisco 20 years ago. Their latest CD Magnificat features compositions from the middle ages that are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Noah speaks with Chanticleer's musical director Joseph Jennings and alto Philip Wilder about the CD.