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Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.

In the 70s, David Chan and his co-workers decided to try every Chinese restaurant in the neighborhood. Now, the 64 year old Los Angeles attorney has visited more than 6,000 Chinese eateries around the world. The Los Angeles Times says he once hit 300 restaurants in a single year.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to 90-year-old Hector Black about his life as a closeted gay man who didn't come out until he was 70 years old.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War. In Spain, there are no official commemoration ceremonies. That's in keeping with the silence with which Spaniards have generally treated the war - and the Franco dictatorship that followed. But many, including now elderly children of victims, are increasingly seeking some kind of closure.

In addition to flooding and power outages, Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Gulf Coast may create delays in the area's oil and gas production, which supplies a large amount of the nation's needs. Monday morning, oil prices surged above $70 a barrel.

There are some 70 new or concept vehicles on display at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, and just about every manufacturer is introducing a vehicle with electric battery technology.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, and the Florida Institute of Technology are working on a plan to colonize Mars. He'd like it to happen by the 70th anniversary of his Moon landing.

The reclusive authoritarian regime has announced that it will turn back its clocks half an hour beginning next week to mark 70 years since liberation from Japan.

A coffee chain in Britain surveyed its customers and found 70 percent suffered "coffee confusion." So the chain is now offering a new trial menu in plain English. A latte is now "really really milky coffee." A cappuccino — "frothy coffee." And a mocha — "chocolate-flavored coffee."

The plaintiff is a 94-year-old woman who has been voting for 70 years, but had trouble voting last year because of the new rules.