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The speaker of Turkey's parliament promptly nullifies a vote that appeared to give narrow permission for U.S. troops to use Turkish bases as a staging area for a potential military strike against Iraq. Absences and abstentions prevented lawmakers who favored the proposal from achieving an absolute majority. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

Hip-hop culture, with its street rhythms and explicit lyrics, is more relevant in advancing civil rights today than the peaceful messages of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., author Todd Boyd says. In an interview with NPR's Scott Simon, Boyd says hip hop artists use language as a political weapon that provokes and "makes people think." (Note: Contains language that some may consider offensive.)

Iraq invites South African weapons experts to Baghdad for talks on disarmament. South Africa began a nuclear program in the 1970s as a deterrent to neighbors opposed to apartheid, but dismantled it in the 1980s. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Mitchell Reiss of the College of William and Mary.

Europe's Muslim population has doubled in the last decade, and an estimated 500,000 new immigrants -- most of them from Muslim nations -- arrive every year. In the third of a five-part series, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on a restive new generation of French-Muslim youths in the "high rise hells" outside Paris. See photos and learn more about each report in the series.

NPR's Susan Stone reports on a new Scottish film based on the hit novel Movern Caller. It uses music, specifically a cassette left for the title character by her dead boyfriend, to drive the story.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Charis Conn, senior editor at Harper's Magazine about the history of the Harper's Index. Today marks its 19th anniversary.

The United States should do more to find a peaceful solution to the weapons standoff with Iraq, former President Jimmy Carter says. But, in a Morning Edition interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, Carter says that if Iraq fails to comply with U.N. resolutions, "war would be inevitable."

Walon Green is one of the executive producers of Dragnet, the remake of the 1950s crime drama set in Los Angeles. The new show revives the fictional detectives Joe Friday and Frank Smith. Green is a veteran producer and writer of other police dramas including Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, as well as the dramas ER and Law & Order. Green also wrote the screenplay for the classic Warner Bros. western The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah. He also wrote the screenplay for a more recent western, The Hi-Lo Country.

Gordon is a sports journalist and Bonner is a specialist on North Korea. They collaborated on the documentary The Game of Their Lives about the most shocking upset in World Cup History: It was July 19, 1966, and the scrappy underdog North Korean team beat the favored Italians, whose players were some of the finest in the world. Later the Korean team lost in the quarterfinals to Portugal. Then the players returned home and disappeared from view. After years of effort, Gordon and Bonner were given permission to enter North Korea and to interview the seven surviving members of the North Korean team. The documentary has been on tour and can be seen in Chicago, March 5th, and at the San Francisco International Asian American film Festival (Mar 8, 10 and 15th).

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A Ship Made of Paper, the new novel by Scott Spencer (Ecco).

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe faces tough questions on Capitol Hill during a hearing on the space agency's 2004 budget. Members of the House Science Committee also press O'Keefe for safety assurances following the loss earlier this month of the space shuttle Columbia. NPR's Eric Niiler reports.

The mobilization of military reserve and National Guard units tops 168,000 troops, the largest call-up since the Persian Gulf War. When a key employee is called to active duty, it can disrupt large companies and damage smaller ones. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.