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Secretary of State Colin Powell delivers detailed evidence against Saddam Hussein to the U.N. Security Council. He lists ways the U.S. says Iraq is continuing to violate U.N. resolutions against weapons development -- and details charges that Iraq has aided terrorists. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with analysts Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment and with Judith Yaphe, Senior Fellow at the National Defense University.

NASA officials expand the search for debris from the space shuttle Columbia in an effort to learn more about what caused the vehicle to break apart upon re-entry Feb. 1. At a memorial service in Houston, President Bush pays tribute to the seven astronauts who died. Hear NPR's Joe Palca and NPR's Wade Goodwyn.

During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project interviewed 2,000 former slaves as part of a larger overall effort to record the remarkable history of the diverse American population. Those interviews became the basis for a new HBO documentary, Unchained Memories.

North Korea says it has reactivated its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon. The country says it needs the reactor to produce electricity, but U.S. officials fear the plant could be used for the production of nuclear weapons. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

James Lee Witt, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, played a quiet role in the investigation of the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 off Long Island. Now FEMA has a similar task as it supervises recovery of debris from space shuttle Columbia. Witt talks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Western businesses are flooding into China. But how do you say Hooters in Mandarin? NPR's Scott Simon tours Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown with China scholar Minxin Pei of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr. Pei explains a few of the Mandarin expressions used to describe American businesses. Hooters presents a particular challenge.

The U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors begin a new round of talks in Iraq, while President Bush reasserts that with or without U.N. support, the U.S. will "take whatever action is necessary" to "disarm the Iraqi regime." U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urges no "unilateral action" on Iraq. NPR's Anne Garrells reports.

A car bombing at a nightclub in Bogota, Colombia, kills at least 30 people and injures more than 150. Authorities blame the leftist insurgent group known as the FARC, but there are doubts in some circles. Security at the club was tight and the attack was sophisticated. Hear NPR's Martin Kaste and NPR's Jacki Lyden.

Much of the debris from the space shuttle Columbia fell in and around Nacogdoches, Texas, a city of 30,000 people. City and county employees have worked around the clock to assist the investigation by marking debris. Janet Heimlich reports.

NPR's Scott Simon talks about tomorrow's NBA All-Star Game in which superstars Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal will both start the game on the bench.