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Luke X. Martin is an assistant producer for KCUR's Up To Date.

Noah Adams talks with Ian Fried, staff writer for CNet.com, about Mac OS X, the next generation Macintosh operating system that will go on sale March 24. Mac OS X is considered to be an advanced operating system, combining the power and openess of UNIX with the same ease of use and broad applications base upon which Macintosh has based its reputation.

Heard It on the X, the new album by Grammy winners Los Super 7, celebrates the golden age of radio along the U.S.-Mexico border.

We've removed the "x" sound in various words and phrases. It's your mission to put them back.

An upstart professional football league dreamed up by wrestling promoter Vince McMahon debuts this weekend. The X.F.L. promises a rough, raw brand of football that will appeal to teenage boys and young men. Critics are already dismissing the new league as a gimmick with no future. But NBC is betting that the X.F.L. has a chance to succeed. NPR's Chris Arnold has the story.

Bob Edwards talks with Andrew Chaiken , editor of Space Illustrated Magazine, about NASA's decision to cancel development of a spacecraft known as the X-33. It was intended to be a replacement for the space shuttle.

Scientists expose the X chromosome's complete genetic sequence. New research shows how the X and Y chromosomes evolved from a pair of regular chromosomes 300 million years ago.

Bob Scucci, Assistant Manager at Stardust's Race and Sports Book in Las Vegas, tells Robert Siegel that betting so-far on the X.F.L. has generated a surprising amount of interest.

Forty years ago, legendary activist Malcolm X was murdered. He was giving a speech Feb. 21, 1965 in the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan when he was gunned down. We hear an excerpt of a speech he gave in 1964 and a commentary from Murad Kalam who says that Malcolm X is missed today by American Muslims, who have no contemporary leader like him.

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded rocket plane to complete two trips to the edge of space within a two-week window. The feat makes the craft the apparent winner of a $10-million award known as the X-Prize, designed to encourage space tourism. Hear NPR's David Kestenbaum.