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NPR's Michele Norris talks with Bruce Bleakly, the executive director of the San Diego Aerospace Museum, about the life of Evelyn Trout. Trout broke several flight endurance records and she was the first female to complete an in-flight refueling operation. She died at the age of 97.

President Bush says he'll give diplomats "weeks, not months" to find a solution to the Iraq crisis. But he also says he would welcome exile for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as an alternative to war. Meanwhile, eight European states show support for U.S. policy regarding Iraq in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli.

Commentator Frank Wu says he takes offense to the special treatment Asian customers get at some Chinese restaurants.

Clark Boyd reports on a popular El Salvadoran radio call-in show called Enfoque Migratorio, or Focus on Migration. The show answers listener's questions about how to get into the United States. It's been such a hit that producers are planning a TV series on the same topic.

A surprise ceasefire between the Nepal government and Maoists fighting to overthrow the constitutional monarchy spurred hopes for an end to a bloody campaign that has killed thousands. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports the interim government appointed by the king vowed to press ahead with preparatory talks with the rebels. The indefinite ceasefire ends, at least for now, the bloodiest spell in an almost seven-year rebellion that has killed more than 7,200 people.

In the first of two reports on diabetes, NPR's Richard Knox reports a new study from Denmark shows people with diabetes can turn their health around with intensive one-on-one counseling about what they eat and how much they exercise.

It's a film about a film that never was. The documentary Lost in La Mancha follows director Terry Gilliam -- of Brazil and Monty Python fame -- as he attempts a screen version of Don Quixote. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

The White House apparently has cancelled a poetry symposium after a number of American poets threatened to turn the event into an anti-war protest. The Feb. 12 symposium on Poetry and the American Voice was one of a number of literary gatherings organized by First Lady Laura Bush. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

A new study challenges the common belief that cerebral palsy is caused by brain injuries to newborns during delivery. Instead, researchers found most neurological damage comes from problems much earlier in pregnancy. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

When the hit rap song "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five came out 20 years ago, many rappers regarded it as an inspiration as well as a political message. Now "The Message" has been selected as one of the greatest songs of all time by the Library of Congress, and has been added to the National Recording Registry. Melle Mel was the original vocalist on the song. This interview first aired August 4, 1992.