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Chip Love, a cattle rancher and bank president, shows an area used for the film “No Country for Old Men” near Marfa, Texas. Love played the role of “Man in Ford,” as credited in the movie, one of many shot in Marfa. (Photo by Eric Gay / AP)

50 years of movie magic in Marfa, Texas

Marfa is a tiny West Texas town with just 2,000 residents. But it’s been the backdrop for some of Hollywood’s most notable movies.

NPR

Dawn arrives at Vesta: Will scientists find a water-coated protoplanet?

A 1,600-pound spacecraft called Dawn is scheduled to begin orbiting Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in the solar system.

Christian Science Monitor

Early visions of human spaceflight

Popular Science

Interview:

Q-and-A with NASA’s Dawn spacecraft project manager

SPACE.com

WSJ publisher quits in phone-hacking scandal

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal’s publisher and the chief of his British operations as Murdoch struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal.

Forbes

Dow Jones CEO Hinton resigns: News Corp.

Bloomberg

‘We are sorry’: Murdoch takes out full-page ad in UK newspapers for apology

MSNBC

All of a sudden, Congress is full of debt ceiling solutions

The initiative for resolving the debt-limit crisis is shifting back from the White House toward Capitol Hill, where House and Senate leaders are preparing alternative legislative strategies to avoid default.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

A debt ceiling cheat sheet: 8 possible plans

(New York Times)

The Caucus

Apple wins international trade agency ruling on HTC phones

Apple Inc. won a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling in a patent-infringement case targeting HTC Corp.’s Android-based mobile telephones.

Bloomberg

Twitter celebrates 5 years, 140 characters, 200 million users

Al Jazeera

NATION

After ‘painful’ blunder, green card lottery results released

Results of the State Department’s green card lottery were originally announced May 1, but they were invalidated because of a computer glitch. The results of a new green card lottery are now posted.

Christian Science Monitor

LA readies for ‘Carmageddon’ weekend

Police, fire trucks and ambulance crews were on standby, but cars flowed freely along the region’s freeways in the hours before a weekend shutdown of a major route in Los Angeles.

Associated Press

LA readies for ‘Carmageddon’ weekend

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Aviation experts worry about aircraft mishaps on the ground

With the latest collision of two commercial passenger aircraft on a runway at Boston’s Logan International Airport, aviation experts worry about the potential dangers that lurk on the runways of the nation’s airports.

ABC News

POLITICS

Texas becomes 1st state to enact ‘hydrofracking’ rules

Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed energy legislation to encourage more natural gas production and require energy companies to disclose the kinds of chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing.

Reuters

State fracking rules could allow drilling near NYC water supply

ProPublica

House committee tackles pipeline safety

Responding to the Exxon spill in Montana and other recent oil pipeline incidents, a House subcommittee discussed a new bill intended to regulate the industry and improve pipeline safety.

C-Span

Minnesota ends budget crisis

After hours of negotiation, Minn. Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders emerged stone-faced to announce they had finally resolved their state’s budget impasse.

TIME

Minn. government back in business

CBS News

BUSINESS

Your 401(k): Clearing the fog around returns, fees

Next spring, it will be far easier for plan investors to know fees relative to how their 401(k) investments are performing.

ABC News

America’s fastest growing millionaire cities spread across the nation

While Silicon Valley basks in the golden glow of the wealth spotlight, Houston, Texas, is quietly minting new millionaires more quietly, but also at a fast pace.

Forbes

EDUCATION

A new majority among college faculty

In the last two years, three outgoing male deans in the colleges of law, business, and arts and sciences at the University of Richmond have all been replaced by women.

Inside Higher Ed

The ethics of student life

While many focus on giving students information about the dangers of using drugs, ethicists at Santa Clara University, Calif., are asking students to take a more thoughtful, proactive approach.

Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Clinton says Islamic world, West can agree on religious tolerance

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she’s hopeful that a religious tolerance agreement between the West and Islamic countries will end efforts to criminalize blasphemy.

Star Tribune

The end of church planting?

In a recent blog post that is attracting attention around the Web, professor David Fitch encourages church expansion via a missionary team model to plant churches.

Christianity Today

SPORTS

Hawaii surfer Carissa Moore clinches world championship

Hawaii’s Carissa Moore has clinched a world championship in women’s professional surfing, and thus became the sport’s youngest titleholder.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Hushovd storms downhill for 13th stage

Norwegian sprint specialist Thor Hushovd showed his climbing abilities by winning the 13th stage of the Tour de France, overtaking Frenchman Jeremy Roy towards the end.

NBCSports

Tour de France photo gallery: stage 13

CyclingNews

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

The immigration problems could be solving themselves

USA TODAY

Blog (Tom Fowler):

Stephen Colbert takes on the Friendly Fracosaurus

FuelFix.com

Interview (Katelyn Beaty):

Geek theologian

Christianity Today

Column (A.A. Gill):

Despite scandal, we need tabloid hacks

Bloomberg

Column (Chris Good):

Are we seeing the death of the political pledge?

The Atlantic

Cartoon (Pat Bagley):

Republican utopia

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (David Sirota):

Why Americans can’t afford to eat healthy

Salon

Blog (Andrew Leonard):

Eric Cantor: The most dangerous whiner in America

(Salon)

How the World Works

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GOOD NEWS

City program gets teens off streets, into rec centers

The Applications for Pride, Purpose & Success program aims to prevent a repeat of last summer’s spike in violence by getting young adults of Columbus, Ohio, involved at local recreation centers.

Columbus Dispatch

Speedskaters to receive free tuition as part of new sponsorship deal

Members of U.S. Speedskating will enjoy free tuition at Ashworth College, an online school based in Atlanta that claims 50,000 students, as part of a new sponsorship agreement.

Salt Lake Tribune

Mental health charity promotes benefits of contact with nature

Dave Urwin, a charity worker in South West, England, is promoting “ecotherapy” as a positive way to maintain mental health.

Positive News

WORLD

Protesters say Egypt’s revolution far from finished

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and other rally points, demanding reform of the police force, as well as the prosecution of top former officials.

Voice of America

Anger in Cairo over slow progress

Al Jazeera

Libyan rebels win international recognition as country’s leaders

Thirty governments and groups, including NATO and Arab League, are now recognizing Libya’s transitional council as “legitimate authority.”

Guardian

NATO leaders discuss Libya in Istanbul

Al Jazeera

United States recognizes Libya rebels

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rotten dinosaur egg reveals lives of ancient scavengers

Pesky wasps once fed upon the insects gorging on rotting dinosaur eggs some 70 million years ago, suggests a new finding of ancient wasp cocoons hidden inside the fossilized egg of a titanosaur sauropod.

LiveScience

With Atlantis launched, what’s in store for up-and-coming astronauts?

These days astronauts aren’t spending their time flying fighter planes or learning how to operate the shuttle.

Discovery News

HEALTH

Deadly Legionnaires’ disease sickens 6 on Las Vegas strip

Nevada health authorities are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that has been reported at the posh 4,000-room Aria Resort and Casino located on the Las Vegas Strip.

ABC News

Powerful placebo effect revealed by asthma study

According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the placebo effect was strong enough to convince asthma patients that their breathing got much better.

HealthNews

ENVIRONMENT

Forests still sucking it up, when it comes to carbon

Recent studies have shown that the world’s oceans and soils are losing their appetite for our carbon emissions. But at least the world’s forests appear, for now, to be swallowing their share of CO2.

Earth Times

Gulf oil spill aftermath: ‘Drill, baby, drill’ era may be gone forever

With federal government watchdogs policing offshore oil operations more diligently, the pace of oil exploration and drilling has dropped as the process of getting a permit slows.

Christian Science Monitor

BP adopts new safety standards for Gulf drilling

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Tattoos: a recession-proof industry

People are getting new tattoos, and they are also choosing to remove tattoos to appeal to potential employers. At least, that’s half of the story.

DailyFinance

Vermont town’s food focus is still a growing concept

At Hazen Union high school, students discuss a book written about their hometown of Hardwick, Vt., as a class assignment. They don’t think it tells the whole story.

NPR

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