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Sledge hockey is one of the roughest events in the Paralympics, the winter games for disabled athletes. Players are strapped into sleds and they propel themselves with sticks. Otherwise, the game is pretty much like ice hockey. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Half a year has passed since jets hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. NPR News reports on Americans' countless steps toward recovery. On Morning Edition, one man's remembrance of the wife he lost in the attack on the Pentagon.

Six months after Sept. 11, National Guard Lt. Victor Rojas is 700 miles from home, guarding a Utah depot that holds weapons for the war in Afghanistan. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Rojas, his family and his fellow Guard members about how 9/11 has changed their lives.

His book is called Them: Adventures with Extremists. (Simon and Schuster). He traveled around the world interviewing different types of extremistsfrom Islamic fundamentalists in a Jihad training camp, to Ku Klux Klansmen at rallies. Them was first published in the U.K. in the spring of 2001.

Neal Pollack's book The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is out in paperback. The author calls it "a heady mix of aesthetic loathing and professional jealousy." It's also a wickedly funny satire of the outsized egos of American journalism. He talks with Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is featuring a broad survey of art made by artists who called themselves surrealists -- and by many who didn't. David D'Arcy reports that the art movement itself defied rigid definitions, but curators keep trying.

Astronauts are giving the middle-aged space telescope an overhaul, rejuvenating its power source and sharpening its vision with a new electronic eye. The 12-year-old Hubble has already rewritten science, and astronomers say there's more to come. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with the Space Telescope Science Institute's Bruce Margon.

In honor of the six-month anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Meyerowitz talks about his World Trade Center Archive Project, a traveling State Department-sponsored exhibition of Ground Zero photographs. Meyerowitz originally spoke about his World Trade Center photos when he was a guest on Fresh Air on October 23, 2001.

Can America become energy independent? In a series of reports, All Things Considered asks whether increased production, decreased consumption, or a combination of the two can free the nation from dependence on foreign oil in an unstable world. (7:30)

Pakistan's supreme court has ruled that a move by the prime minister to dissolve parliament is illegal, ending a political crisis — for now.