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Imagine if Dark Side of the Moon was composed on an 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.

The unrest in the Middle East presents Israel with an array of security concerns — given the specter of threats from potentially hostile neighbors. Scott Simon talks with Michael Oren — Israel's ambassador to the United States.

Thirty years ago, an assassin's bullet meant for President Reagan struck press secretary James Brady in the head. Host Scott Simon talks with Brady and his wife about their life and work since then.

Until our judge, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, decides on a winner of the Three-Minute Fiction contest, we're bringing you excerpts of stories that have caught our eye. This week, NPR's Susan Stamberg reads a passage from "Friendly Skies" by Tiffany Hawk of Eastampton, N.J., and Bob Mondello reads a passage from "The 46 Local" by John Lynch of Binghamton, N.Y.

This past week, the same day an air traffic controller fell asleep at his post at Reagan International Airport, the nation's top air traffic controllers were gathered for an annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas. Weekend on All Things Considered spoke to two winners, Chuck Labombard and Derek Bittman, who were honored for life-saving calls made from their posts.

Explosions were reported Sunday night in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. It's believed NATO launched another round of airstrikes against the capital and also on targets in Sirte, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's hometown. In eastern Libya, anti-Gadhafi rebels were consolidating their gains after retaking the strategic towns of Ras Lanuf and Ajdabiya.

There are reports that Libyan rebels have moved beyond Ras Lanouf and are now heading toward Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi's hometown.

It may be decades before we know what the discussions were inside the Oval Office that led to the decision to intervene in Libya. But Robert McFarlane, who was national security adviser during the Reagan administration, says the determination to use military force always involves several factors. Among them: U.S. interests, humanitarian concerns and capabilities. He says that while U.S. interests in Libya are low, humanitarian concerns are high.

No one can accuse Portland's Red Fang of an image do-over, but the band's second album, Murder the Mountains, is certainly a sleeker style of riff-heavy metal and the better for it.

Soft and insistent, breathy and sometimes wordless, she doesn't have the voice of Ella, or Sarah, or Betty. But she doesn't need it; on her third album, she's got plenty of that slippery, you-know-it-when-you-hear-it quality often abbreviated "musicality."