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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.

Commentator Cynthia Fuchs says that while two high profile new cop shows, Dragnet and Kingpin, are getting all the attention, there are other badges worth watching on TV. FOX's Fastlane and FX's The Shield have some surprising new approaches to race relations and institutional corruption.

Many Pakistani men are trying to leave the United States for Canada to avoid a Feb. 21 deadline to register with the American INS. Some with legal papers say they fear being wrongly detained. But Canada is refusing entry to many. Hear North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann 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.

Host Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about the triumphs and troubles that have occupied the United States Olympic Committee in the year since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Wayne Harris, the man behind DB drag racing, an extreme audio sport in which contestants try to make their car stereos deafeningly loud. "DB" stands for "decibel." Microphones, not human ears, are inside the cars when the competition starts. The car with the loudest stereo system wins.

Scott Jagow reports on Takahito Suzuki, the first Japanese-born pro hockey player in the United States. He plays for the Charlotte Checkers, a minor league team in North Carolina.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame gives Jimmy Webb the Johnny Mercer Award for "a history of outstanding creative works." Among his classics: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston" and "Wichita Lineman." NPR's Scott Simon offers an appreciation.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the Columbia tragedy and human exploration of space.

The death of director of photography Halyna Hutchins on a film set in Santa Fe, N.M., is a reminder that prop weapons can pose a serious risk. But Hollywood history includes only a few such incidents.