In a near carbon copy of this year's Kentucky Derby, I'll Have Another raced from behind on a deep stretch to defeat Bodemeister at the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday.

Bodemeister broke to the lead and held onto first place for much of the race, but as the horses headed for home, I'll Have Another bolted past the field, took aim at Bodemeister and won the charge to the finish line, reports The Associated Press.

The next race in the Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes, is June 9 at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. If I'll Have Another wins that race, he'll be the first horse since 1978 to win the Triple Crown. It was 34 ago when Affirmed swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont and became the 11th and most recent Triple Crown champion.

Since Affirmed, 11 horses have won the first races in the Triple Crown series, only to come up short in the Belmont. The most recent was Big Brown in 2008, who was pulled up around the turn for home and did not finish.

When asked about I'll Have Another's chances at Belmont, trainer Doug O'Neill said that he's "a special horse," according to The New York Times.

"We're thinking Triple Crown, baby ... We'll see how he comes out of it, and if he comes out of it in good shape, we're heading to New York, baby," O'Neill said.

Here's a video of the race from SportsGrid:

Update At 7:47 P.M. ET. Chen Guangcheng Addresses A Crowd Outside New York University:

Addressing a crowd outside New York University, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng said he was grateful to the U.S. Embassy staff in Beijing for providing him a "safe haven." Through an interpreter, he said he was gratified that the Chinese government was handling his situation with "restraint and calm" and thankful for the opportunity to leave China to study at NYU.

Chen said he hoped Beijing would keep its promise to protect the family he had left behind.

Update At 6:34 P.M. ET. Chen Guangcheng Arrives In U.S.:

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his family have arrived at Newark International Airport in New Jersey. His United Airlines plane landed shortly after 6 p.m.

"Chen is now expected to enroll at New York University School of Law, where his friend Jerome Cohen helps direct the U.S. Asia Law Institute," NPR's Joel Rose said in a report for NPR's Newscast unit.

"Chen's supporters described him as happy," Rose reported, "but they say he remains concerned that his friends and relatives in Shandong province will suffer retribution because of his escape."

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Chen Guangcheng is coming to America. The Chinese activist whose escape from house arrest sparked a diplomatic crisis abruptly boarded a plane bound for Newark, N.J., early this morning.

Accompanied by his wife and two children, Chen left Beijing and is purportedly on his way to study law at New York University. His departure is an artful conclusion to an episode that tested U.S.-China relations, as NPR's Frank Langfitt told Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon:

"This was a very clever way to get around an impasse between the U.S. and the Chinese government. The Chinese were furious that he got away from house arrest, and Chen did not want to go into exile. So a New York University professor came up with the idea — he said, 'Why don't you come study in New York?' And the government, the Chinese government, was able to say 'Sure there's no real big problem here, it's common for Chinese to go study in the U.S.' And this provided a face-saving way out and paved the way for the departure today."

Chen's journey to the U.S. began last month when he escaped from house arrest and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing — just ahead of a high-profile visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The New York Times has the State Department's official take on Chen's exit:

"In a statement, U.S. officials obliquely praised the Chinese government for its cooperation in resolving what became a diplomatic headache for both countries. 'We also express our appreciation for the manner in which we were able to resolve this matter and to support Mr. Chen's desire to study in the U.S. and pursue his goals,' Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, said."

"What's quite good about this," Langfitt says, "is these two countries, the United States and China, were able to work out a deal. And China, in a sense, gave up quite a bit — in the sense that this is a dissident who had humiliated them."

It's a happy ending that still leaves something to be desired. Chinese dissidents tend to become irrelevant as soon as they leave the country. Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch told The Guardian that by getting rid of Chen, the Chinese government has less incentive to investigate wrongdoing:

"This is a reflection of the fact that there is no room for human rights defenders in China. We don't know if this will turn into a temporary stay or exile, but in either case, it begs the questions why someone like Chen Guangcheng cannot freely operate in China. What is it that stops the authorities from tolerating or even embracing someone like Chen?"

From a pragmatic perspective, Langfitt notes, the case "shows that neither side is going to let the human rights issue hijack the relationship — there's simply too much at stake these days."

"The truth, though, is if you follow Chinese and U.S. relations over the last couple of decades, human rights really hasn't been a pivotal issue for a very long time — and this kind of shows that."

What it also shows is how far China has yet to go in developing the rule of law, Langfitt adds.

"Leading up to this point, Chen had been jailed. He'd been beaten; he'd been under house arrest – all essentially because he challenged local authorities on illegal forced abortions. The central government didn't really do anything about this, and so what you have here is the world's second-largest economy — an increasingly important country, but with no rule of law. And the government can kind of do what it wants."

Once he lands in the U.S., Chen will also be able to do what he wants. That may include another departure; Bloomberg reports he told Hong Kong Cable Television, "I don't know when I'll come back, but I'll definitely come back."

There's a jockey switch for tonight's Preakness Stakes in Baltimore: the 2004 Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux won't ride Tiger Walk in the race. He failed a breathalyzer test administered yesterday at Belmont Park, in New York.

Although it sounds surprising, jockeys are now required to take a daily breathalyzer test in New York if they plan to ride, according to the Daily Racing Form. Desormeaux's level was .05 percent or higher and that's considered impaired. He was also removed from three races yesterday.

Although the Preakness is staged in Maryland, not New York, the horse's owner, quickly parted ways with the jockey. Tom Mullikin, the general manager of Sagamore Racing, tweeted "...We can't have any distractions this weekend. We spoke w/ Kent and wished him well." Jockey Ramon Dominguez will ride Tiger Walk instead tonight.

Desormeaux's experienced this before: in 2010, he failed a breathalyzer test at a Canadian track, according to ESPN. His replacement guided his mount to win the day's biggest prize.

The Preakness starts at 6:18 PM eastern time. Be prompt: the New York Daily News notes the race is one and 3/16's of a mile, so it'll all be over in a couple of minutes. Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another will be looking to catch the second jewel in horse racing's triple crown, notes AP.

At 73, Tamae Watanabe is the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest — again. The last time she made the record, she was 63.

She reached the top with four other team members Saturday morning after an all-night climb, Asian Trekking says. The Japanese mountaineer was leading Asian Trekking's International Everest Expedition 2012.

Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association in Nepal tells The Associated Press that the team is in good condition and heading back to the base.

Asian Trekking has a list of Watanabe's other mountaineering feats, which have taken her all over the world, including Alaska's Mount McKinley in 1977.

The oldest man to climb Everest was Min Bahadur Serchan, who was 76 when he reached the highest point on Earth in 2008, according to the Guinness World Records. Radio Australia News reports the youngest person to climb the mount was 13-year-old American Jordan Romero in 2010.

Moments after ignition, a privately funded spacecraft aborted its liftoff, delaying its mission to the International Space Station.

SpaceX's unmanned rocket had a one-second window to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday morning, and the failed launch means the next opportunity won't be until early Tuesday morning.

The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, had been tweeting from the company's California headquarters leading up to the scheduled launch time of 4:55 a.m. ET.

"Whatever happens today, we could not have done it without @NASA, but errors are ours alone and me most of all," he said.

The successful launch would have been just the beginning in a series of tests for the private spacecraft.

The Dragon capsule, perched atop the Falcon 9 rocket, would become the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station. Even after it eventually launches, though, it will be a few days — filled with more trials — before the Dragon can berth.

 

Update at 10:04 a.m. ET. Shutdown A Half-Second To Launch:

As the AP reports, it was the Falcon 9's onboard computers that shut the operation down with just a half-second to launch.

Even NASA's most seasoned launch commentator was taken off-guard.

"Three, two, one, zero and liftoff," announced commentator George Diller, his voice trailing as the rocket failed to budge. "We've had a cutoff. Liftoff did not occur."

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell confirmed Elon Musk's earlier tweet that the high-combustion chamber pressure in engine No. 5 was to blame for the shutdown. Technicians are investigating further; if they need it, there's a spare engine available.

Update at 7:10 a.m. ET. 'Revving The Engines':

In a briefing after the launch attempt, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell likened the process to a commercial pilot revving the plane's engines before taking off.

"We were revving the engines, looking at the gauges, and we decided not to fly," she said.

She also said that the required wait time between launches has to do with the trajectory of the space station. The next chance to launch will be either 3:44 a.m. ET on Tuesday or 3:22 a.m. on Wednesday.

Update at 5:22 a.m. ET. What Happened?:

Musk gives an indication of what prevented the launch via Twitter: "slightly high combustion chamber pressure on engine 5. Will adjust limits for countdown in a few days." NASA says, "the teams will continue to look at the data and assess a launch attempt on May 22." NASA will host a briefing at 6:30 a.m. ET on NASA TV.

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According to SpaceX, it will take just under 10 minutes for the capsule to reach its preliminary orbit. On Day 2, Dragon will orbit Earth on its way to the space station. Before docking, which should happen on Day 4, it has to perform a series of tests and maneuvers to check whether it's ready for contact. SpaceX says:

"NASA decides if Dragon is allowed to attempt to berth with the station. If so, Dragon approaches; it is captured by [the] station's robotic arm and attached to the station. This requires extreme precision even as both Dragon and station orbit the Earth every 90 minutes."

This mission will involve only nonessential cargo, so the six astronauts aboard the space station will be able to get by if they don't get the goods.

After about two weeks, Dragon should detach and come back to Earth with a splash in the Pacific.

The mission presents challenges from start to finish, The Christian Science Monitor says.

"The mission is technically demanding – cramming into one orbital outing an agenda that the Gemini program in the 1960s took several missions to accomplish."

A successful mission would set quite a precedent, too. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reported on the private infusion in the space business Friday:

"The highly anticipated mission could mark the beginning of what some say could be a new era in spaceflight, with private companies operating taxi services that could start taking people to orbit in just a few years."

So far only Europe, Russia, Japan and the U.S. have sent spacecraft to the space station.

"There's no question this is a historic flight," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at a news conference Friday, as reported by the AP.

It won't be the only first for SpaceX, either, as NASA notes. It launched the same rocket and spacecraft in 2010, becoming "the first private organization to launch and recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit."

SpaceX says the capsule is designed to hold both cargo and people. The AP says the company will stick to supplies for now, but "within three or four years, the goal is to have astronauts on board so Americans no longer have to hitch expensive rides on Russian rockets."

The NASA space shuttle program ended last summer with the launch of Atlantis. At that point, NASA turned to the private sector for delivery duties, the AP says. SpaceX has been working closely with NASA to prepare for this mission, all the while working through cultural differences between the entities, Greenfieldboyce reports.

One thing both NASA and SpaceX agree on, the AP says, is that this is a test flight. SpaceX says:

"If any aspect of the mission is not successful, SpaceX will learn from the experience and try again."

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, there were no guarantees. There were no guarantees that they'd make it there and there were no guarantees that they could make it back home.

President Richard Nixon and his speech writer William Safire knew that. So, imagining a situation in which the American astronauts were doomed in an alien land, Safire drew up a plan to mark their inevitable demise in a dignified way.

In a speech, the president would thank them and say that while there was "no hope for their recovery," there is "hope for mankind in their sacrifice."

A clergyman would commend their souls to the "the deepest of the deep." And at some point, before their death, NASA would cut communication.

We're not saying our ants are American heros. But when we dropped them into their blue habitat with NASA gel, we didn't know where it would lead.

During the past week or so, the ants have slowly begun to die.

It doesn't look good: The ants left alive are trying to bury their dead at the top of the farm. But, slowly, stemming from the cadavers the blue hue of the gel has been tainted with a brown, reddish growth.

Corrie Moreau, assistant curator of the division of insects at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, tells us our ants are faced with a common fate.

That reddish growth is probably mold or mildew or a wind blown pollen. In gel-based colonies, says Moreau, it could also be that a fruit fly has laid eggs and maybe soon, we'll see larvae crawling around the tunnels.

The ants, says Moreau, are trying their best to "groom" themselves. They're moving their dead from the tunnels to the top of the farm to avoid disease. But at some point, besieged by disease or old age, the dead will litter the tunnels and their colony will crumble.

How long that will take is anyone's guess. The places that sell these ants, said Moreau, usually collect the ones foraging on the outside of the colony. They're usually the older ones.

We asked Moreau what would happen if we let the ants free. Unaccustomed to Washington's climate and predators, they won't live long, she says. Even if they survived, without a queen, they have no chance of establishing other colonies.

It's bleak. It's sad. It's a lot like what happens in nature, Moreau says, when a queen gets old and starts laying fewer eggs and the ants can no longer bring in enough food and care for their home and their tunnels start crumbling.

Taking inspiration from Safire, this is our goodbye. As we predicted in our first post, the ants created a thing of beauty — a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers created with uncanny team work.

Before it gets ugly, we're pulling the plug. The NPR AntCam will go dark at midnight.

Flanked — literally and figuratively — by British royalty, the Olympic torch was flown from Greece to England, where it will begin a final 70-day journey before the 2012 London Olympics.

The Telegraph reports that after a rainy ceremony in Greece, the torch was taken aboard British Airways Flight 2012. The paper adds:

"The flame, lit by the sun's rays in Greece a week ago, was transported home in four lanterns that occupied the best seats in business class, seats 1A and 1B. The Princess Royal was relegated to 1F, across the aisle from the unique hand-luggage she collected in Athens on Thursday.

"David Beckham, was three rows back, one behind Sebastian Coe and London mayor Boris Johnson, but took a leading role in the ceremonies that, after 10 years of planning seven years of hype, started the final 70-day countdown to the Games."

The Guardian reports that about 7:25 p.m. local time, the torch was on British soil for the first time since 1948, when it arrived via Rolls-Royce and ship.

Here are a few images from the ceremonies:

You lucky West Coast folks! A stunning solar eclipse will occur late Sunday afternoon, and people in the western U.S. will get the best views. Live on the East Coast? It's already going to be dark, so the only way we'll get to experience this is via webcam.

The event starts about 5:30 PM Pacific time and the maximum effect will occur about 6:30 PM, according to NASA.

This is an annular solar eclipse, not the total blackout we imagine when the moon passes in front of the sun. NASA says as the moon travels, there will be an 'annulus of sunlight' that peeps all around the moon's shape - that's the ring of fire effect. The sun, hidden behind the moon, will look like it's a big black hole.

This bears repeating: during the eclipse, don't look at the sun. And don't use your home telescope to peer directly at the eclipse; you should have special solar filters fitted for it. Here's NASA webpage on eye safety during eclipses.

In the U.S., the eclipse's shadow will travel from the Pacific Coast in Oregon and cut toward the southeast. The shadow will move over northern California, swing directly over Reno, Nevada, cover quite a bit of Utah, edge northern Arizona and slide directly over most of New Mexico. The Texas panhandle will see it, too. (Tokyo will also have a great view.) NASA says the ring effect may last up to four and a half minutes.

If you can't bear to miss it, check out Panasonic's website. The Japanese electronics company is sending a video team up Mt. Fuji to capture the event, notes AFP. There's a cool map that will mark the team's ascent to the top and a link to the eclipse video stream. If you'd rather see the eclipse in person, check out Reno. The Las Vegas Sun reports the city's hotels are offering discounts for the event and the local planetarium is staging a festival.

Don't worry if you missed out on Facebook's initial public offering. Chances are, if you own shares in a broad-based index fund, you'll be holding onto some Facebook soon enough.

Facebook is such a huge offering -– with an initial market capitalization of more than $100 billion, it instantly becomes one of the 25 largest "cap" stocks — that it could have a distorting effect on some funds, at least in the short term.

"Clearly, they're going to have to be buying a lot of it," says Robert Jennings, a finance professor at Indiana University.

Index funds are a type of mutual fund designed to mirror the returns of a stock market index. They add stocks to their lists in one of two ways: either through selection by a committee, as with the Standard & Poor's 500, or based on certain rules, such as the size of a stock's market capitalization.

Either way, a lot of those funds are going to be buying Facebook in the coming weeks. That could help the social networking company's share price, if only temporarily.

 

When an index such as the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500 or Wilshire 5000 announces it is going to add a company to its list — usually after hours — speculators line up, knowing there will soon be a quick "pop" upward in the stock price as loads of mutual funds move to buy in.

"When stocks are added to the index, they've got to blindly go out and buy it," at whatever price it's trading at, says Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic, an investment advisory and financial planning firm in Colorado.

Because Facebook is now so big, it's going to have a greater effect on index funds than a smaller company would. Indices are meant to track the stock market broadly, so sometimes limits are put on how much weight an individual stock can carry.

That's already happened with Apple. The growth of its share price has been so rapid in recent years that some indices have taken steps to limit Apple's weight within their listings.

The whole point of an index, after all, is to track the market or some large segment of it, not to ride the fortunes of an individual stock.

"The Nasdaq 100 is usually a market-cap weighted index, but finally they had to cap the percent that was Apple, because Apple was a third of the index," says Jennings, who served on Nasdaq's economic advisory board from 2002 to 2004.

Not all mutual funds will have that kind of circuit breaker, however. Some managed funds may be inclined to take more risks to reap higher returns, and that may include buying big stakes in hot stocks such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

Funds that don't may come in for criticism from investors who feel they're missing out. This dynamic is one reason why expert money managers can be as prone to following trends as individual investors — and why funds that shine one year can be beaten badly by index funds the next.

"Investors should be very worried that a managed fund will get too heavy into any one stock, and 'hot' stocks are especially worrisome," says Roth of Wealth Logic. "Performance chasing does happen by professional mutual fund managers."

With National Dog Bite Prevention Week set to start Saturday, the Insurance Information Institute wants Americans to know that:

— Insurers paid $479 million in home owner insurance claims involving dog bites last year, up 16.1 percent from the year before.

— The number of such claims rose 3.3 percent, to 16,292.

— The average cost per claim grew by 12.3 percent from the year before, to $29,296.

— And the average cost per claim has soared 53.4 percent since 2003, when the institute began tracking those figures. That compares to a 22.3 percent increase in the consumer price index (which tracks inflation overall at the consumer level).

Institute spokeswoman Loretta Worters says medical costs and increases in the size of settlements, judgments and jury awards have combined to sharply boost the cost of claims related to dog bites.

The institute is one of several organizations working to promote dog bite prevention week. Among the others involved is, not surprisingly, the U.S. Postal Service, which says that 5,600 USPS employees were attacked by dogs last year. The Post Office is out with its annual list of the 25 cities with the most dog attacks involving its personnel.

According to USPS, Los Angeles led that list with 83 attacks in 2011. San Diego was second, with 68 attacks. Houston, Cleveland and Dallas followed, all with more than 40 attacks.

Speaking of mail carriers, why do dogs seem inclined to bite them? According to Bark magazine:

"The majority of dogs who bite do so because they are afraid. Fearful dogs are often especially scared of people who are carrying things, which puts people who deliver the mail at risk. Furthermore, these mail carriers turn their backs and walk away, an action that can give frightened dogs just enough confidence to act on their fears by biting."

The president of Malawi vowed to overturn her country's ban on homosexual acts.

The BBC reports that President Joyce Banda made the vow in her first address to Parliament.

"Some laws which were duly passed by the August house... will be repealed as a matter of urgency... these include the provisions regarding indecent practices and unnatural acts," Banda said according to the BBC.

Back in December, the United States said countries that criminalize homosexuality could face cuts to their foreign aid. As we reported, when Secretary of State Hilary Clinton announced the new rules, she said "gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights."

According to The Guardian, Banda made a reference to that when she said she wanted to normalize relations with "our traditional development partners who were uncomfortable with our bad laws."

The AP adds a bit more background:

"Malawi had faced international condemnation for the conviction and 14-year prison sentences given in 2010 to two men who were arrested after celebrating their engagement and were charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency.

"Then President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned the couple on 'humanitarian grounds only' while insisting they had 'committed a crime against our culture, against our religion, and against our laws.'

"Mutharika died in office in April. Banda, who was vice president, stepped in to serve out his term which ends in 2014."

The BBC reports that Banda's party has control over Parliament so her plans should be able to go forward.

It was just this February when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's West Indies vacation home was broken into by a machete-wielding robber who stole $1,000. No one was hurt.

Now, the Washington Post reports that his D.C home was robbed of housewares:

"According to a police report, the burglar appears to have entered by breaking a pane of glass near the front door; a pair of $500 silver candlesticks and a 100-piece set of silver valued at $2,500 were taken. Arberg confirmed that no material from the court was missing. Gwyndolyn Crump, a spokeswoman for the D.C. police, said the investigation remains open."

Before this pair of Breyer incidents, the last time a justice was victim to a crime was 2004, when a group of young men assaulted Justice David Souter as he jogged on a city street, according to the AP.

A unlikely coalition failed to derail the government's practice of holding terror suspects for indefinite periods of time.

Some Democrats and Tea Party Republicans put the issue to a vote through an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have ended the practice but it ultimately failed, today, in the GOP-controlled house by a vote of 238 to 182.

The AP reports:

"'The frightening thing here is that the government is claiming the power under the Afghanistan authorization for use of military force as a justification for entering American homes to grab people, indefinitely detain them and not give them a charge or trial,' [Rep. Justin Amash] said during hours of House debate.

"The policy's supporters argued that ending it would weaken national security and coddle terrorists."

The amendment was sponsored by Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington.

The Hill does a great job at breaking down in detail what the debate is all about. The essence of it is whether people detained in the U.S. on terror charges still have the protection of the U.S. Constitution. Those who opposed the Amendment, for example, believe that suspected terrorists shouldn't be protected by the Miranda rights and shouldn't have the right to remain silent, for example, because the government should be able to extract important intelligence.

Smith and Amash would like to see suspected terrorists tried by the civilian justice system and take away what they say is the president's "extraordinary" power. Smith and Amash say the Constitution protects everyone in the country.

The Hill points out that the House did authorize a separate amendment to the NDAA that "affirmed U.S. citizens would not be denied habeas corpus rights."

A newly released Justice Department study reports nearly 1 in 10 inmates have experienced sexual violence.

The data, based on a 2008 survey of people who served in state prisons, says the abuse disproportionately hits gay and bisexual inmates. And victims who reported the problems often were retaliated against or ignored, the study said.

The study was released on the same day President Obama decreed that a 2003 law meant to prevent rape in prison protects people in all federal facilities, not just ones overseen by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

States have up to one year to decide whether to adopt reforms but states that don't follow the new rules could lose 5 percent of federal funds and become ineligible for new grants. California, Oregon and Massachusetts have already made changes.

"No matter how serious the crime an inmate has committed, his or her sentence does not include being raped," said Pat Nolan, president of the Justice Fellowship, which advocates for prisoners.

But Nolan and others raised alarms about whether detainees in immigration facilities, who may not have committed any violent crimes, would receive second class protection under the rape prevention law.

The Department of Homeland Security had fought inclusion under the 2003 law, known as the Prison Rape Elimination Act. NPR has reported on behind the scenes battles over whether the Justice Department could oversee DHS facilities or make rules to cover them.

The White House apparently reached a compromise making clear DHS must follow the law but giving the agency six months to come up with its own rules for doing so.

"DHS has an abysmal track record of preventing and investigating the serious and systemic problems of sexual assault and abuse in its facilities," said Amy Fettig, senior staff counsel at the ACLU National Prison Project.

Rep. Frank Wolf, R - va, a co author of the 2003 law, objected to the delay since rules were supposed to be finished in June 2010.

"I am deeply disappointed that it took so long," he said. "who knows how many rapes could have been prevented if these standards had been put in place sooner. "

A senior Justice Department official said the rule making was one of the most complicated in decades.

The new standards forbid pat downs of female inmates by guards of the opposite sex, require prisons to do more to advise inmates of their rights and services that could help them, and impose audits every three years by an independent overseer. The standards also direct authorities to decide on a case by case basis whether to house transgender inmates in a male or female facility.

We'd seen the video of the world-record paper airplane toss — 226 feet, 10 inches.

What we didn't realize until reading this story in today's Wall Street Journal is that there's a controversy brewing among "paper-plane enthusiasts" over whether it was right for designer John Collins to have Joe Ayoob, a former University of California-Berkeley quarterback, do the record-breaking throwing back in February.

"I reckon [Collins] should train up and do it himself," Dylan Parker, a paper-plane throwing competitor, told the Journal.

Former record holder Stephen Kreiger is also questioning whether it was right to bring in a designated thrower. "Competitive paper airplane flying had always been, in my mind, what can one person do with one piece of paper," he said to the newspaper. About using a ringer, Kreiger said: "I don't really think that's the spirit of the competition."

Ayoob doesn't buy such arguments. "We broke a world record," he said to the Journal. "If people want to try and hate on that, then that's all good."

This has us wondering:

By the way, there wouldn't seem to be any way Ayoob or any other ringer could toss the largest paper airplane ever built into the sky. After all, as the Los Angeles Times reported in March, it weighs 800 pounds.