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Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban

Six stories above the bay on the flight deck of the USS Midway, the bartender is running out of ice. He urges us to scramble down the ladders to another bar in the hangar bay. But no one leaves. We stand on deck and watch a bold disc of gold drop behind point loma. The Midway is anchored forever now near navy pier. Its top deck offers an energizing new overview of our San Diego.

A View From the Midway

Tuesday's seven presidential primaries and caucuses are expected to clarify the standings of the Democratic candidates. While the main prizes are Missouri, Arizona and South Carolina, several candidates are seeking the momentum that could help them mount a winning campaign. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Mara Liasson.

Peter Agre of Johns Hopkins University and Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University are the winner's of this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry. The two scientists were cited for their work with cell membranes and how materials move into and out of living cells. Hear NPR's Richard Harris.

This year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy. NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with Michael Gorra, professor of English at Smith College. Gorra theorizes that Nobel Prizes for Literature are given in cycles to vary those of different genres, abilities and geographical areas.

The 2003 Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to South African novelist J. M. Coetzee. He's the fourth African writer to win the prize in the last 40 years. Hear NPR's Neda Ulaby.

The New York Times names Bill Keller as executive editor, more than a month after the newspaper's top editors resigned following a plagiarism scandal. A former Times managing editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, Keller replaces Howell Raines, who resigned after former reporter Jayson Blair was found to have plagiarized and fabricated stories. Hear NPR's Rick Karr.

Along the Tigris in Baghdad, locals who are lucky enough to catch a prized river fish, split open the belly, and grill Mazgouf on an open wood fire. It's Iraq's traditional dish and for the past two months, no one was making it. But with life coming back to the city... however slowly... Mazgouf makes a proud comeback. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

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