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NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Norwegian divers in the Barents Sea have confirmed Russia's worst fears: all 118 men aboard the submarine Kursk are dead. As the rescue effort wound down, Russians continue to ask questions about their government's handling of the tragedy. Attention also turned to the task of raising the sub from the ocean floor before its nuclear reactors begin to leak.'

Montana writer Mary Clearman Blew is better known for her memoirs and essays than for her fiction. But our book reviewer Alan Cheuse finds her collection of short stories, Sister Coyote, well worth the reading. (2:00) Sister Coyote, by Mary Clearman Blew is published by The Lyons Press.

Commentator Bill Lessard -- an experienced dot-com employee himself -- says that all those perks you hear about at technology companies don't really add up to as much as workers think they're getting.

From member station WNYC in New York, Amy Eddings reports that 35-thousand Verizon Communications employees are still on strike despite an agreement that was reached over the weekend. Approximately 50-thousand of the telephone workers in New York and New England who were on strike returned to work yesterday after the agreement was reached.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the growing political clout of Chile's native Mapuche Indians. Although timber companies hold the title to much of the country's valuable forest land, the Mapuche claim it belongs to them. They've occupied and set fire to some of the land. The timber companies remain unsympathetic, but other parts of Chilean society are beginning to consider the Mapuche's views.

Jerome Vaughn of member station WDET reports on the move by Ford Motors to stop producing trucks and start producing tires at three of its plants -- this in response to the recall of Firestone-Bridegstone tires on some Ford trucks that was instituted last week.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the latest development on the Russian submarine that sank in the Arctic Barents Sea more than a week ago. After more than a week of desperate attempts to rescue the crew, on board the Kursk, yesterday the Russian navy formally announced that they were all dead.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports that Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is assembling a federal task force to monitor airline performance after a summer travel season marred by thousands of flight delays.

Host Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about political events this week. Now that the Republican and Democratic conventions are out of the way, both Al Gore and George W. Bush are hitting the campaign trail with more vigor.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the latest loss of power for Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Over the weekend, voters in Chiapas elected opposition party candidate Pablo Salazar as the state's governor.