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Nancy Marshall reports a dating service in Philadelphia may be able to help singles who don't have a lot of time to spend looking for a soul mate. The company's called Nanodate, and it specializes in arranging meetings where singles have an 8 minute conversation before they move on to another perspective mate. (6:26

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the increased air traffic into Baghdad. U.N. sanctions have kept all but humanitarian relief flights away from Iraq for over a decade. But now more countries are willing to bypass the U.N.'s approval. The U.S. is worried that more flights into Iraq will increase the chances for a weapons build-up. (

(Update) Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the violence in the Middle East.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Harry Link about the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, announced this morning. Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese author to win the award. Gao's has been living France since 1987 after one of his work "The Other Shore" was banned in China. He is a novelist, dramatist, and translator.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Ted Clark about Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's announcement yesterday that she will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang late next month. She will be the highest ranking US official ever to visit the communist nation.

One week after riots forced Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevich from power, his supporters in the Serbian government are making life difficult for his replacement, Vojislav Kostunica. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade.

Noah talks with Sam Web, Chairman of the Communist Party USA about Gus Hall, who has died at the age of 90. Hall was Chair of the Communist Party in the U.S. for many years, and he ran for president on the party ticket four times. Web says Hall never lost his optimism and hope for Communism in America, and recently was happy to see so many young people involved in protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Wade Goodwyn reports on a study by a Texas advocacy group that says the state's death penalty system needs a drastic overhaul. The report, by the Texas Defender Service, says the system is full of dishonest prosecutors, incompetent defense attorneys, a weak appeals process, and racial bias in sentencing and jury selection.

Robert speaks with Robert Pelletreau, former Assistant Secretary of State, about the lack of popular support among Israelis and Palestinians for final compromises in the peace negotiations. They discuss what Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak must do for the peace process to be able to resume successfully.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the trouble in the Middle East is a headline-grabbing situation unsuitable for political gain -- bad news for George W. Bush and Al Gore.