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Breaking a long-standing taboo, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sends troops into the tribal region of western Pakistan in an intensified search for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda supporters. Pakistan denies that the efforts are tied to a deal to win U.S. consent for Pakistan's pardon of a scientist who spread nuclear secrets. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with poet Suji Kwock Kim about the poetry of war. Kim writes the fragmented stories of Koreans, some from her family, suffering during the conflicts of the 20th century. Kim's family emigrated to Poughkeepsie, New York, where she says she was taught a responsibility to use imagination to understand the horrors of the past.

Krakauer is the author of the book Into Thin Air, about the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest climb in which eight climbers were killed. His new book, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, is about Mormon fundamentalism and the story of the two Lafferty brothers who murdered a woman and her infant daughter because they say that they had received a revelation from God to do so. Krakauer reports there are some 40,000 Mormon fundamentalists in the American West, Canada and Mexico. The Mormon Church does not recognize fundamentalists as part of their faith.

Best-selling writer Jon Krakauer turns from mountains to Mormons in his latest book, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, which attempts to link violence among non-Mormon polygamists to Mormon beliefs and history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints rejects Krakauer's premise. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Dorothy Height, a longtime civil rights leader, talks to NPR's Juan Williams about her new memoir. Height also recounts her experiences as one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement.

The life of composer Richard Rodgers is the subject of Somewhere for Me by biographer Meryle Secrest. Rodgers helped create some of Broadway's most recognized music, from Oklahoma to The Sound of Music.

Author Jonathan Franzen joins Fresh Air to discuss his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, The Corrections. It is a saga about two generations of an American family; the parents and their children.

Youth Radio's Nzinga Moore talks to some California students about the SAT-9 exam.

It took the Sugarhill Gang, and a song called "Rapper's Delight," to get the developing hip-hop art form on the radio.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that Eva Cassidy a Washington, D.C., singer who died two years ago, has since become something of a star in Britain and a cult favorite in the United States.