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The U.S. carried out retaliatory strikes Friday in Iraq and Syria after a drone strike in Jordan killed three U.S. servicemembers Sunday.

The Middle East changed over the weekend. Israel killed the leader of the militant group Hezbollah in Beirut in a wave of continuing airstrikes that began a week ago.

The attack occurred in Minya, a province some 160 miles south of Cairo where many of Egypt's Christians live.

The plane's occupants are believed to have been real estate developer Larry Glazer, who may have been at the controls, and his wife, Jane, who owned a catalog business.

Biographer Jane Leavy strips baseball hero Mickey Mantle of his glamour, while basketball coach Roy Williams looks back on his career, and filmmaker Sam Irvin celebrates the resilient gleam of performer and writer Kay Thompson. Also, C.J. Chivers explores the AK-47 and its impact on warfare.

Moira Brown, perhaps the oldest of Scotland's Tartan Army of soccer fans, will be in Boston when Scotland's team plays against Haiti on June 13. "I'm the luckiest person in this world," she says.

Also: A Jane Austen Festival sets a new record; Terrance Hayes on winning a MacArthur.

Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family includes a sperm donor dad and 35 siblings. Ken Tucker reviews Bartees Strange's Farm to Table. Jane the Virgin writer Rafael Agustin's memoir is Illegally Yours.

Make-up and Visual Effects Artist STAN WINSTON. He created the live-action dinosaurs in this summer's hit movie, "Jurassic Park." In the film, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," he aged actress Cicely Tyson from age 19 to 110. In "The Terminator," WINSTON made-up Arnold Schwarzenegger, and created the robotic puppetry in the film. WINSTON won an Academy Award for his work on "Aliens." And he developed and created the character of Edward Scissorhands for the movie of the same name.

Anthropologist BIRUTE GALDIKAS. "The New York Times Magazine" called her the "third angel" of Louis Leakey, who also taught Jane Goodall and DIan Fossey. GALDIKAS has been studying orangutans in Indonesia since 1971, when virtually nothing was known about the animal in the wild. Since then, there have been articles about her and her research in "National Geographic" and other magazines, and she has just written a new book about her work, "Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo" (Little, Brown and Co