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Arab world and how that led to the current Middle East peace process.

Robert previews other pieces coming up this week, marking the Persian Gulf and its legacy.

Noah talks with with Chris Nuttall, the BBC correspondent in Turkey. Nuttall discusses the end of four-day hostage ordeal in which gunmen seized a Black Sea ferry with more than 200 people on board and threatened to blow up the boat unless Russian troops halted their attacks on Chechen rebels in southern Russia. The pro-Chechen gunmen surrendered to Turkish authorities near Istanbul after throwing their weapons into the sea.

SCOTT PONDERS THE THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WEEK'S NEW ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES -- CAN SUCH AN IMMENSE UNIVERSE BE THE PRODUCT OF CHANCE? -- WITH OWEN GINGERICH, PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT THE HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

in Chechnya.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on prospects for funding the federal government beyond next week. Congress is considering two approaches: funding it all but for only a short time, such as a month, or funding only certain parts of the federal government, forcing further discussion on the rest.

In Minneapolis, two businessmen are trying to raise money to start a new internet company. They plan to serve corporate clients, but they also want to provide jobs to people who live in their neighborhood, an area known for prostitution and drug-dealing. John Biewen of Minnesota Public Radio reports that the company initially attracted many investors -- until they found out where the company is located.

Leda (LEE-dah) Hartman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on New Hampshire, the only state not to honor Martin Luther King with a day of his own. This year it gets a bit uglier, as a white supremacist group from Mississippi stages a demonstration at the statehouse.

Robert and Noah read listeners' letters.

for the withdrawal of warring factions in Bosnia. By midnight tonight, all opposing forces are scheduled to be fully withdrawn from a 70-mile "zone of separation." The commander of NATO forces in Bosnia says he believes the parties will meet the deadline.