Headlines from June 1, 2011

Anticipating a summer of energy conservation, Japanese government encourages businesses to go casual--to little applause.
Spain wants compensation for its vegetables, the export of which dried up when Germany mistakenly blamed them for an E.Coli outbreak.
With a plan to resurrect rivers, architecture team wants to return Mexico City to pre-Aztec condition.
Nepal becomes the first country to recognize "transgender" in its national census.
Israel's navy and a new Gaza flotilla gear up for a late-June confrontation.
Once vilified, now scholarship-laden and DADT-free, ROTC welcomed back to Stanford, Harvard.
Lady Gaga's Born This Way becomes the fastest-selling album since 50 Cent's 2005 The Massacre.
A history of profanity in the New Yorker.
The anatomy of the centaur.
Google now tracks the spread of flu and dengue fever through geographic search results.
"I only know about this place from Seinfeld, some episode of Seinfeld." Papaya King goes to LA.
A couple of weeks ago, I replaced my 51-year-old Ego with a much more powerful Post-Dave Died of Boredom Hubris.
The pleasant lot of inebriate British women in captivity during the early 20th century.
Herman Cain, GOP protest candidate, starting to gain "real candidate" momentum.
Leader of Navy's Blue Angels resigns over unsafe maneuver.
J. Malcolm Garcia reports Mubarak's trial in Cairo.
Egypt prepared an internet shut-off switch as early as 2008.
Video: "Mute" button applied to New Yorkers in Prospect Park.
Ralph Lauren shirts snatched up by Mexican youths who want to look like drug barons; hitmen now wear matching sneakers.
Factory precision found in Taco Bell's "golden age" drive-through procedures.
Revolutionary new birth control method for men coming soon from India, perhaps.
Greek society as a whole is at a breaking point. Athens, home to surging unemployment, now a city of fear.
Remembering when New Yorkers could dial a poem in the late '60s.
New York's Pierre and Sofitel hotels to equip all maids with panic buttons after two alleged attacks in as many weeks.
Possibly it was the trauma of listening to my mother call my stepfather a "horny Boy Scout." Erica Jong's daughter: prude.
"The crawler," shuttler of space shuttles, is world's largest self-powered land vehicle.
Calvin and Hobbes returns (to a degree) in "Hobbes and Bacon."
Videos: Baseball fans catch foul balls while holding children.
Peek-a-boo windows behind players at Roland-Garros are windows from ball kids' clubhouse (see also: ball kids meditating pre-match).
Seven steps for authors to Kindle-proof their books.