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Edward Weston's photographs from a year he spent traveling through Death Valley and the West are at the heart of a major exhibition now at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. NPR's Renee Montagne reports on the exhibit.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with Jane Juska about her new book, A Round Heeled Woman, in which she tells the story of how, at age 66, she placed a personal ad stating her desire to have sex with a man she likes. She received more than 60 responses and had a number of encounters.

The Rare Book School at the University of Virginia is the only one if its kind in the United States. NPR's Jacki Lyden took a tour of the school's collection, and talked with elite scholars attending week-long sessions to learn more about the preservation and art of rare books.

Guest host Steve Inskeep interviews Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of the group Steely Dan. They discuss the group's tour in New York and their music.

Continuing a week-long series on how people around the world view America and Americans, NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Adetoun Ilumoka of Lagos, Nigeria. For the last 12 years, Ilumoka has worked as a researcher and social activist, coordinating the activities of the Empowerment and Action Research Centre -- a nonprofit social-change organization based in Lagos. Prior to that, she taught law at Nigeria's University of Jos.

NPR's Susan Stamberg continues a series on contemporary ethics in a talk with Walter Pavlo, a former finance manager at MCI, who recently got out of jail. Pavlo served two years for money laundering, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice. He says in the early, heady days of the telecom industry, he felt "bulletproof."

Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.

Performances by three winners of the Young Poet's Competition at the Sunken Garden Poetry festival in Farmington, Conn. They read from a selection of their poems from this week's program, "Fresh Voices 2003."

The first 400 recruits for the new Iraqi army begin basic training under U.S. supervision at a base east of Baghdad. The recruits are under heavy guard for fear that Iraqi resistance fighters might attack. U.S. officials say they hope to have a division of 12,000 troops within a year. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

In May, President Bush signed an executive order that declared "null and void" any legal decisions that would claim Iraqi oil money. The administration says it just wants to guarantee money for Iraqi reconstruction. But critics say the words in the executive order could allow oil companies to act with impunity. NPR's Peter Overby reports.