• HIGH GAS PRICES CRIMP TEENS' CRUISING The American teen tradition of cruising is taking a back seat to today's record-high price for a gallon of gas.
• PRIVATE SPACESHIP SET FOR HISTORIC FLIGHT SpaceShipOne's team has made a date with history for June 21, setting the first full day of summer as launch day for the first piloted spaceflight in a privately developed craft.
• 'BIOPHARMING' IS BACK, REPORT FINDS Shielded by a federal process that limits public access to data, biotechnology companies are quietly pushing to splice more human genes into food crops, an advocacy group said in a report released Wednesday.