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Singer and songwriter Mia Doi Todd talks about her song "Digital" which is on her new album The Golden State, on Columbia Records.

For $3.5 million, you can roam the halls of the Los Angeles house where Freddie Krueger murdered his victims. You have until Halloween to make an offer.

Kathy Witkowsky visits Yellowstone National Park to allow listeners to experience the park in winter. Park officials are embroiled in a fight over whether snowmobiles should be part of winter recreation in Yellowstone.

NASA officials back away from the theory that a piece of foam insulation, dislodged during Columbia's liftoff, caused the space shuttle's disintegration upon re-entry Feb. 1. As NASA continues its probe, engineers draw on risk assessments done after the 1986 Challenger explosion. Hear NPR's Richard Harris and NPR's Christopher Joyce.

Two flea-market jewelers in Broward County, Fla., are arrested for using their "expertise" of precious metals for another occupation -- gluing decorative gold inlays to people's teeth.

From member station WUWM in Milwaukee, Marge Pitroff reports on a little-known provision in the education law signed by President Bush last year that requires schools to provide information about their students to military recruiters. The new requirements caught many schools and parents by surprise.

In 1992, the president of Turkmenistan promised that every family would own a house and car within a decade. He's delivering on part of his promise -- every government minister will get a new Mercedes-Benz this year.

Foreign ministers from Turkey and five Middle Eastern states ponder ways to avert war in Iraq. And British Prime Minister Tony Blair's close alignment with the White House on Iraq has analysts saying Blair risks damaging Britain's relations with Europe. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson and NPR's Guy Raz.

Country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver has lived through some hard times, but nothing compares to the past three years. In that time, his mother, wife and son all died. Then Shaver suffered a massive heart attack. NPR's Bob Edwards interviews Shaver about his new CD and the therapeutic benefit of writing songs.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell insists the U.N. Security Council remain open to the possibility of using military force in Iraq. Powell's comments come amid growing international opposition to a war with Iraq. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.