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who has discovered a diary that seems to confirm that Admiral Richard E Byrd became the first person to fly a plane over the North Pole 70 years ago. (5:10).

to lower the number of cars on the island during tourist season. In the past, any car in line for the ferry before a certain time was guaranteed passage to the island that day. But beginning tomorrow, reservations are required two weeks in advance for a space on the ferry.

In the Midwest, unemployment rates are at their lowest in decades. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that midwestern employers are offering competitive wages and benefits in order to attract enough workers.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the closing of Sumner lementary school in Topeka, Kansas. The Sumner school was the focal point of he 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that became the landmark decision eading to national integration.

- On his 82nd birthday, Frankie Manning reminisces about how he came up with a new step for the Lindy Hop, a popular dance created by Shorty Snowden in 1927. Manning created his dance move in 1935 at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says instead of all this fussing about what to put in the GOP platform, why not just drop it altogether. Hardly anyone reads it, no one votes based on it.

Scott talks with Mark Goodman, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Roslyn, VA about a recent incident at Louisianna State University where some minority students threw out all the copies of the free student paper because of articles it was running on the Ku Klux Klan.

NPR's Derek Reveron reports on yesterday's crash of a ValuJet DC-9 in he Everglades of Florida. The cause of the crash is still being investigated, ut there are reports that smoke filled the plane's cockpit just before the jet isappeared from the nearest airport's radar screen. There were l09 passengers n the plane, and as yet, no signs of survivors.

Eighty-six would-be summer blockbusters will be coming out between now and Labor Day. Critic Bob Mondello has a selective preview.