Radio Pangaea: Free Your Mind

– U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site. With less than two weeks before Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn awards a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract for the private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery, some are criticizing the selection process as too secretive and questioning whether it favors one powerful bidder. A war-crimes trial for Guantanamo's youngest detainee opened with prosecutors showing an al-Qaida video of him making — and apparently planting — bombs in Afghanistan. An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war. India said it would cut off BlackBerry email and instant messaging unless the smartphone's Canadian makers allowed security forces access to the services by the end of the month.