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Headlines from June 7, 2010

Helen Thomas agrees she's not the best choice to give the commencement address at Walt Whitman High School.
Psychologists diagnose Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

Researchers armed with a laser find meditation preoccupies the mind, dulls pain.
For nearly two centuries, a small Shiite sect called the Order of Assassins was one of the world's most lethal terrorist groups.
What we experience in religious art, ultimately, doesn't have to lead us into heaven. How atheists can appreciate iconography.

Follow-up analysis of Facebook geography compares networks to linguistic patterns.

American publishers could, and did, effectively pirate British books, selling them far more cheaply than books written by Americans.