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Commercial airline pilots must retire at age 60. That hasn't been a problem in the past because pilots had generous pensions. But with several of the major airlines in bankruptcy, pilots are seeing their pensions reduced and some are fighting mandatory retirement.

Casey Amato always wanted to be a police officer. She figured she didn't stand a chance. She didn't think she was tough enough, or had the kind of presence that commanded attention. She was wrong.

Tanya Walker was a mother of six living in Long Beach, Miss., when Hurricane Katrina arrived onshore and destroyed her town. In the aftermath of the hurricane, Tanya's mother Betty Higgins was afraid she had died. Walker survived the storm, and she and her mother talk with Renee Montagne about the ordeal.

L. Patrick Gray, who was the acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, has died at 88. Gray had been back in the news recently, expressing shock that his former deputy, Mark Felt, had been "Deep Throat," the Washington Post's secret source for Watergate details.

Special correspondent Susan Stamberg talks to women graduating Tuesday from her college alma mater, Barnard College in New York City. The three women were just days into their college careers on Sept. 11, 2001, and tell Susan how that day changed their friendships, their academic paths and their plans for the future.

Renee Montagne talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new collection of his letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, was published recently.

This week's bombings in London mark the first major assault on a U.S. ally in Europe since the Madrid bombings 16 months ago. Those attacks led to an about-face in Spanish foreign policy -- and the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. Though it's unlikely the British will follow suit, questions are arising over whether U.S. allies will increasingly consider the consequences of supporting Washington's policies overseas.

The weekend release of Dark Water is the latest in a wave of Japanese horror movies to be remade for American audiences. The Ring and The Grudge are other examples, and at least a half-dozen other horror remakes from Asia are on the way.

weekend, residents along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi have been preparing to evacuate their homes and head inland to safer ground. It's a familiar process for the millions of people who suffered through four brutal hurricanes last year.

The extent of the damage to museums, parks, galleries and theaters in areas affected by Katrina is not yet known. Leaders in the arts and cultural communities are starting to take stock of what survived.