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Storyteller Bailey White details adventures in trying to find her car as exhaust fumes cloud her senses and conjure up hallucinations of the underworld.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the spy plane incident and US-China relations with David Shambaugh, professor of international affairs at George Washington University and a China specialist at the Brookings Institution; and Don Oberdorfer, professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS reports from San Diego on Pacific Gas & Electric's decision to file for bankruptcy.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli government and many ordinary Israelis are holding Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Eight years ago, following signature of the Oslo accords, the Palestinian leader was hailed in Israel as a partner for peace, but few Israelis apparently still hold that view.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Iranian movie, The Day I Became A Woman. It tells the stories of a young girl, a young woman and an older woman in Iran, and their places in society. It opens today.

Despite months of work by the state of California to bail out its largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, the company filed for bankruptcy this morning. PG&E's financial problems are the direct result of the California state law that deregulated the electricity market. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

NPR's Ivan Watson in Monrovia reports there are few signs of recovery or reconstruction in Liberia four years after the end of the country's long civil war. Now, the United Nations is threatening to impose sanctions on the Liberian government.

The standoff with China over the EP-3 reconnaissance plane has the United States in a very difficult diplomatic position. Noah Adams speaks with Kenneth Lieberthal, currently a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, and formerly senior director for Asia on the National Security Council. They discuss some of the positions the U.S. could take against China. Lieberthal says they all carry their share of problems.

NPR's Margot Adler reports that more than a dozen states have joined a push against telemarketing. New York just enacted its law -- and more than a million people have signed up.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on a recent performance by an unusual ballet troupe from the Siberian city of Perm. The company, calling itself the Fat Ballet, features hefty ballerinas weighing, on average, 200 pounds.