Japanese Line Up for American Beef (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Japanese queued up before a downtown Tokyo fast-food chain on Monday as the restaurant began offering the first servings in more than two years of a popular rice dish topped with American beef. [News Source]

Bessie and her friends a welcome addition to rural community (Wyoming Tribune-Eagle) CARPENTER - Stand in the parking lot of Burnett Enterprises outside Carpenter, and your view of southeastern Laramie County is almost exclusively of fields, houses and farm buildings. [News Source]

UC offers to fight deadly pathogens (Recordnet.com) TRACY - If it is built in the hills southwest of Tracy, a high-security laboratory where moon-suited scientists study a handful of the world's most dangerous pathogens would be one of perhaps a half-dozen such labs across the country, according to experts. [News Source]

Books in brief (Toronto Sun) IN TOMORROW'S PAPER: [News Source]