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Sure, curtailing collective bargaining rights is controversial. But so is not solving this week's ScuttleButton puzzle. So you don't want to miss this.

With all its original members, the legendary bluegrass band plays a live concert in the border town of Bristol.

Twice every 100 years or so, Venus crosses the face of the Sun. It's like an eclipse, except Venus will look like a pea in a yellow saucer. But the transit has a storied history — it showed for the first time that other planets have an atmosphere, and also allowed astronomers to calculate the scale of the solar system. This year offers yet another possibility — the transit will help astronomers figure out which planets orbiting other suns in the universe have atmospheres, and maybe life.

Scott Walker vastly out-raised and outspent his Democratic challenger in the state's recall election, largely on the strength of big donations from out of state. He was helped by a quirk in Wisconsin law, which lets a governor facing a recall vote bypass political donation limits.

The U.S. is ending millions of dollars in funding for Pakistan's version of Sesame Street, which began airing six months ago. Officials say allegations of fraud by the Pakistani company that's producing the TV show prompted the decision, which comes amid a tense period in U.S.-Pakistan relations.

Four years ago, Evelyn Stevens was an investment banker who started entering bicycle races. But she rose through the cycling ranks quickly, and next month she'll represent the United States at the London Olympics.

The Obama Administration announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement with more than 100 colleges and universities on a new, more transparent form for laying out student financial aid packages. Students and parents have complained for years that colleges provided opaque and confusing information about how much students will actually pay for college and how much they will owe after they graduate.

Mary Kay Henry said the recall election in Wisconsin is also about public education and about workers' quality of life.

The Uncertainty Principle says that at some level the world turns fuzzy and the idea of properties as perfectly objective, knowable attributes gets inherently fuzzy.

Watch a live NASA feed of the Transit of Venus.