12 at 12: Death of pork bellies and NASA training top headlines

1. NASA trained its astronauts in every aspect of space flight, including rigorous run-throughs on how to plant the American flag on the moon. Today is the 42nd anniversary of the first moon landing.

reggie-bush-usc.jpgNumerous media outlets are reporting that the Heisman Trophy won by New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush during his college days at the University of Southern California is on the move.

2. Wendi Murdoch scored one for the Murdoch team yesterday when she foiled an attempt to 'pie' her husband Rupert during a hearing before Parliament.

3. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange ended trading in pork-belly futures Friday. NPR offers a post-mortem on a once-vibrant market.

4. Music writer Keith Spera interviews Sade.

5. Learn how to make a Red Wing cocktail from mixologist Alan Walter of Loa, at the International House Hotel.

6. Food truck chefs in Chicago offer tips on picnic dishes that travel well.

7. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports on the end of the nearly three-week shutdown of Minnesota's state government.

8. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll blames both sides for the intransigence over raising the debt ceiling, but Republicans moreso.

9. Sports writer Andrew Lopez offers the latest installment on Reggie Bush's itinerant Heisman Trophy.

10. Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old online political activist and programmer, is indicted in Boston for stealing millions of documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR.

11. A maintenance check after heavy rains led to the discovery of marijuana and psychedelic mushroom farms in Uptown New Orleans.

12. Today in 1919, Edmund Percival Hillary was born in New Zealand. Hillary, a beekeeper, was the first man to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.