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The National Transportation Safety Board is expressing concern with a new, looser, Federal Aviation Administration policy on air traffic controller mistakes. Air traffic controllers can now allow planes to get 20-percent closer to one another than the law allows without risking punishment. Robert talks with Dr. Marvin Smith, Chairman of the Air Traffic Management Degree Program at Embry Riddle University in Daytona, Florida.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the Air Force has decided to keep a Florida runway to itself and to turn the rest of a controversial base over to surrounding Miami-Dade county. The Air Force set one condition upon granting the land: that it not be developed into a county airport.

Today's sealed and insulated houses mean indoor air is often more polluted than the air outside. Cigarette smoke, pet allergens, and fumes from cleaners are increasingly trapped inside, along with chemicals released from insulation, paint and carpeting. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on what researchers know about indoor air quality.

Many of us are still dealing with poor air quality this week. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an alert through Thursday afternoon…

KLCC's transmitter at Otter Crest is not functioning. Our engineer is installing a backup today and we should be back on the air later today (Wednesday).

Fifty couples in Latvia got married at what's known as the Love Cup Festival. They were trying to set a Guinness World Record for most simultaneous weddings while floating in hot air balloons.

Explosions rock Baghdad as a U.S. and British aerial attack gets under way with a heavy barrage. B-52 bombers leave their bases in Britain on their way to join the air assault on Iraq. Hear NPR's Neal Conan and NPR's Ivan Watson.

Old World artisans created the tilework that lines the stops of the subway in Buenos Aires, and many of the details on the trains themselves. NPR's Bob Mondello sends us this audio postcard from the Argentine capital.

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A major U.S. air offensive begins in Baghdad, with hundreds of missiles raining down on Iraq's capital city. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says the Iraqi leadership is starting to lose its hold on the country. NPR's Ron Elving and Larry Abramson report.