Weekend imminent again . . .

And in the news . . .

COSMOS

Saving Valentina . . .

The big pic:  Hurricane Dora . . . .Discovery

Nature’s best timepieces . . . . Popular Mechanics

and it’s another scorcher . . . .Weather.com

US students lack geography proficiency . . .The Seattle Times

Dinosaurs and earth farts . . . International Business Times

THE CLONE WARS

Debt ceiling, entitlements & tax reform . . . LA Times

Everyone needs to take a chill pill about Netflix . . . .Reelseo.com

Higher Education:  Keep your eye on the tax dollar . . . Reuters

Florida DMV making bucks of your information . . . .Local10.com

Israel diverts a protest . . . New York Times

Gang of Six . . .Politico

THE BEGINNIN G OF THE END?

Saturday mail soon to be a thing of the past? . . .USA Today

Campus Crusade is going underground? . . . Fox News

Bye bye Borders . . . .Daily Finance

Don’t Ask . . . Fox News

Dawn of a new sleep rug? . . . .Wall Street Journal

Out with Snow Leopard, in with Lion . . .MacWorld

IS IT ART?

Awesome? Auto-tuned tracks . . .Billboard

A Gag order violated can cost you . . . .Fox News

Reasonable airfares in Europe? . . . .Seattle Times

Politically incorrect history . . . .Fox News

EVERYBODY IS WATCHING

Must see viral video . . . Salon

funniest commercials of all time . . . Ad Week

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

What to eat! . . . Fox News