The battle for control of the Senate remains too close to call little more than a week before Election Day. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Rushing Leader. Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith broke the late Walter Payton's N.F.L. career rushing record on Sunday. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

A prototype tactile graphic display allows blind people to 'feel' electronic images and graphics -- opening up whole new vistas for non-sighted Web surfers. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]

STMicroelectronics has a breakthrough in light-emitting silicon that could lead to more powerful computing processors. [New York Times: Technology]

Grokker software, which is intended to allow personal-computer users to visually make sense of collections of thousands or hundreds of thousands of text documents, is creating a buzz. [New York Times: Technology]

Scott Spiezio turned to meditation after he hit a three-run home run to start the greatest comeback for a team facing World Series elimination. [New York Times: Sports]

Space.com Oct 29 2002 0:03AM ET [Moreover - Science news]

Aficionados of fledgling wireless networks have taken to their cars, locating plenty of security breaches. In Manhattan, 'WarDrivers' sadly found too few places to, um, go. Michelle Delio reports from New York. [Wired News]

In late 2001 and early 2002, we surveyed a sample of 56 websites from the U.S., U.K., and Israel on each of seven holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, Purim, and St. Patrick's Day. [Tomalak's Realm]