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In the golden age of flight, pilots reveled in the magic of lonely nights aloft and suffered the perils of stormy skies. Author Gregory Crouch recommends three books that describe these harrowing aero-adventures. Do you remember the first time you flew? Tell us your story in the comments.

Samira Ibrahim, the face of the protests, said women in Egypt are under attack.

A Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate has been found guilty of intimidation based on sexual orientation and other crimes. Tyler Clementi jumped to his death after learning that Dharun Ravi had been spying on him.

Police in San Diego say Jason Russell was found masturbating in public.

Most of the state holds its caucuses Saturday morning, but the first one in Barry County was a messy event. More than 250 people showed up, many planning to vote directly for the candidates. That was not to be.

Peter Behrens' new novel starts with a teen, ends with a railroad magnate, and covers plenty of ground in between. Canada's nation-building is the background of this sweeping family saga.

Poet and Irish expatriate Frank Delaney has enjoyed success as a BBC host, Man Booker Prize judge and author of the best-selling novel, Ireland. To honor St. Patrick's Day, Delaney shares with Weekend Editionhis original poem, Drowning the Shamrock.

In the midst of the fallout from the Afghanistan civilian killings, guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with Sarah Sewall and John Nagl, about repercussions for the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan. Nagl is a counterinsurgency expert, author and former lieutenant colonel in the Army. Sewall directed the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard and is an expert on civilian-military relations.

NPR's John Ydstie wraps up the week's economic news, looking at banking stress tests, the markets' performance and the Goldman Sachs resignation.

John Demjanjuk, the retired U.S. autoworker convicted on 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder, died Saturday at the age of 91. Demjanjuk died a free man in a nursing home in southern Germany, where he had been released pending his appeal.