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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Mike Pierce of the Student Borrower Protection Center, about plans to extend the student loan payment pause and a reset for roughly 7 million borrowers who are in default.

Former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam is probably best known for his fantastical films, such as Brazil and Twelve Monkeys. Now Gilliam himself is the subject of a film -- Lost in La Mancha, a documentary about his failed effort to film his take on the classic novel Don Quixote. View a video clip from the documentary.

Scientific research has always been one of the main arguments for developing NASA's manned space flight program and the International Space Station. But as the future of the program comes under scrutiny in the wake of the Columbia disaster, critics argue that most of the work doesn't require humans at all. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

As the United States moves closer to war with Iraq, educators are taking different approaches to teaching what it means to be a patriot. In the conclusion to Morning Edition's "Citizen Student" series on civics education, NPR's Margot Adler moderates a Justice Talking debate between scholars who disagree on how -- or if -- American schools should teach patriotism.

The government puts the nation on heightened alert for the possibility of terrorism. The Bush administration raises the alert one notch to code orange, signaling a "high risk" of attack, based on communications chatter possibly linked to al Qaeda terrorists. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Eager to promote its image as a tourist paradise, the "land of smiles." Thailand has had lax visa requirements, porous borders and an anything-goes attitude in the capital Bangkok. In the final installment of a Morning Edition series on terrorism in Southeast Asia, NPR's Eric Weiner reports these conveniences threaten to turn Thailand into an unwitting terrorist safe haven.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Andy Banta from Orangevale, California. He listens to Weekend Edition on member stations KXJZ and KXPR in Sacramento.) (6:45)

The quiet Wyoming town of Riverton -- population 10,000 -- got a shock recently: their town was about to become the headquarters of the World Church of the Creator, a group associated with white supremacy and racial violence. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on how the town is responding to the move, and how it's confronting its own history of intolerance. Listen to an extended interview with church "hastus primus" Tomas Kroenke.

The author of 25th Hour. His book, about a former drug dealer in New York City out on the town on the eve of being sent to a penitentiary. It's the basis of the new Spike Lee film of the same name.

NASA engineers are pursuing competing theories about what may have caused the catastrophic breakup of the space shuttle Columbia. NPR's Larry Abramson reports on how forensic investigators keep a constantly open mind until the evidence for one theory becomes so strong that it leaves no room for doubt.