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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is increasingly courting U.S. minority groups. This week, a delegation of prominent Latino and African American leaders wraps up a visit to see the social reform program led by Chavez.

Cambodian-born Andrew Thi committed crimes in the United States as a teenager. Now 30, he faces deportation to a homeland he barely remembers. Thi's story is told as part of "Crossing East," a radio series about Asian-American history.

The original Patent Office in the nation's capital is nearing the end of a $300 million renovation. This summer, the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum will be reopened, and museum officials are hoping the building itself will be as big an attraction as the art inside.

In the '50s, Richard Adler collaborated with his partner, Jerry Ross, on the Broadway musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game. Currently, there is a new Broadway staging of The Pajama Game, starring Harry Connick Jr., and Michael McKean. This interview originally aired on August 9, 1990.

Japanese skater Shizuka Arakawa takes the gold medal in the most highly anticipated event of the Winter Olympics -- women's figure skating. Sasha Cohen of the United States wins the silver medal and Russia's Irina Slutskaya takes the bronze.

Married to one of the world's most famous men, Anne Morrow Lindbergh often chafed at the public attention she received. Her 1955 book Gift from the Sea, written on quiet Captiva Island, gazed inward at life, marriage and family.

FEMA releases new federal advisories and recommendations about which areas of New Orleans are vulnerable to flooding in the future. The advisories will require that many houses be raised several feet to qualify for insurance. Residents plan to use the guide to decide whether to rebuild or relocate.

Two members of the Duke University lacrosse team were named in sealed indictments handed down form a Durham, N.C., grand jury, according to reports. The charges stem from a night in March, when a dancer at a house party thrown by team members told police she was sexually assaulted by three men.

Six months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is celebrating Mardi Gras. The celebration this year is as lively as ever, but smaller. There are four fewer days, six fewer carnival krewes and every parade has to use the same route.

President Bush's call for more science funding comes amid criticism of his administration's approach to scientific research. Scientists say the White House puts ideology first. The president's chief science adviser calls the complaints "irrelevant."