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Robert talks to Phoebe Marr, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University; Gary Sick, executive director for the Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University and staff member of the National Security Council under Presidents Carter, Ford, and Reagan; and Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, who was also special assistant for national security to President Reagan. They discuss what would constitute an acceptable outcome for the current conflict between the U.S. and Iraq.

Washington Mayor Marion Barry has spent the last week at several retreats, most recently at a healing center in St. Louis to in his words, "seek mental, physical, and spiritual rejuvination." In a statement issued to the public last weekend, the mayor also referred to the 12 Step Program of Alcoholic Anonymous that states that every person should take a "fearless personal moral inventory." Daniel talks to former Senator Harold Hughes, who describes himself as a recovered alcoholic. Hughes is known for his long-term commitment to issues related to addiction and is familiar with the pressures politicians face when they have to deal with their problems in the public eye.

For some more details about the survey, Lynn Neary and Jacki Lyden talk with Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. He says only 30 percent of people in Turkey have a favorable opinion of the United States. He adds that though there isn't much love for Saddam Hussein abroad, there is also little support for a military effort to remove the Iraqi leader. And Kohut says the dislike of the United States appears to be stronger among the citizens of American ally countries, than in the developing world.

Thousands of high school seniors in Mass. today are taking a standardized test called the MCAS. Most of them have already taken it -- and failed. This week is their last chance to pass the test so they can receive their diplomas this spring. There are arguments on both sides regarding the merits of these so-called "high stakes" tests. Host Michele Norris gets to both sides of the issue by speaking with Monty Neill, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, and Paul Reville, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the new president of the Philippines spent the day shoring up support from the country's most important power centers-- the business, military and the Catholic Church. Gloria Macapgal Arroyo, the vice president who took power over the weekend when President Josef Estrada was forced from office, faces daunting national problems. They include an economy in free-fall, a currency at record lows, and an on-going Muslim insurgency in the south. Filipinos have no illusions that Arroyo will be able to work miracles. But after the tiring scandals of the Estrada regime, they seem willing to give the Harvard-educated economist a chance.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly arrives in South Korea for talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The visit comes a day after New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson meets with North Korean officials, who insist the country has no plans to build a bomb. Hear NPR's Mike Shuster and Selig Harrison of the Center for International Policy.

Between 2015 and 2019, there was a 30% increase in the most commonly reported infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Bush's public approval rating lags those of other recent second-term presidents, a new pre-inaugural poll shows. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Salon.com publishes previously unreleased photos of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. Separately, a U.N. report urges the United States to close its military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Stephen Harrigan explores the worlds of space travel, adultery and motherhood in his new novel, Challenger Park. The Texas-based author was inspired to write the book while visiting the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.