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Sixty years ago, the Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands, and a young British officer stayed hidden behind enemy lines to spy. He's one of the heroes of the Battle of Guadalcanal. For Radio Expeditions, NPR's Neal Conan has his story.

After two major studies link hormone replacement therapy to serious health risks like heart disease and breast cancer, millions of menopausal women -- and their doctors -- are reconsidering their options. Millions of those women are now reconsidering their use of hormone replacement pills. And doctors around the country are trying to figure out what to tell them. NPR's Joe Palca reports for Morning Edition.

Thomas Reese is a Jesuit scholar and editor-in-chief of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine. He's also the author of the book Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church. He'll discuss the pope's recent tour, the pontiff's health, possible successors and the divide between the church and its parishoners.

Every summer amateur astronomers around the country hold hundreds of "star parties," inviting the general public to gaze through telescopes at the night sky's wonders. At Stellafane, in rural Vermont, sky watchers have gathered since the 1920s. They'll be there again this weekend. So will Sky and Telescope magazine editor Kelly Beatty, who offers a commentary for Morning Edition.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discovered the memoirs of Malvina Harlan, wife of a former justice, and was so taken by the manuscript that she pushed to have it published. In a two-part interview on Morning Edition, Ginsburg discusses the book -- and her life on the Supreme Court -- with NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Born a slave, Mary Bowser went on to be one of the Union's best assets in the Civil War. On Morning Edition, NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor has the story of the woman who spied for the North -- while working in the Confederate White House.

NPR's Morning Edition and Youth Radio have been giving Israeli and Palestinian youths the chance to share their thoughts about the continuing violence in their homelands. Today we hear from Sara Dansker, a 15-year-old Israeli girl who lives a half hour from Jerusalem, and from 21-year-old Dina Jawhar, a recent college graduate, whose home is a few miles from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah.

The White House won't mediate the fight between the FBI and CIA, Alberto Gonzales, the president's counsel, tells Morning Edition Senior Correspondent Juan Williams. Instead, Gonzales says, it will let Congress sort out who's responsible for any intelligence failure surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says he thinks a military conflict between India and Pakistan can be averted. "There's nothing inevitable about war," he tells NPR's Juan Williams in an interview for Morning Edition. When it comes to Iraq, Powell is less adamant about the hopes for a political solution.

It's almost summertime, and many second-semester seniors at Roosevelt High School in Seattle have come down with "senioritis" -- already checking out, slacking off and sleeping in. NPRs Robert Smith has been following the students, faculty and staff at Seattle's biggest high school for an entire year, and reports Monday for All Things Considered