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With more than 1 million people going to Turkey for the procedure every year, hair transplants are transforming men's scalps — and vanity. But not every story ends with a perfect hairline.

It was close, folks, but we're happy to announce the winners of NPR's National Pet Radio Contest. Please offer a big congratulations and round of applause (or should we say appaws) to our grand-prize winner Stevie the Wonder Dog who listens to KCPW in Salt Lake City.

This year has yielded a bumper crop of cookbooks for the farmers market regular. Food writer T. Susan Chang has sorted through this bounty to come up with an armload of recommendations — as well as a score of great summer recipes — for the locavore in your life.

The Boston Globe is suing a former employee who has accused a top editor of sexual harassment. The paper wants more details about her accusation and is requesting unspecified damages.

Also: Speculation mounts that San Diego mayor will soon step down; former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to be under house arrest after he's released from prison; Bradley Manning says "I am female"; and California kidnap victim Hannah Anderson talks about her ordeal.

Also: At least four die in a Philippines ferry sinking; a relief group says one million Yemenis may have cholera; and the British parking lot where Richard III's remains were found is now a monument.

Also: A storm exits the Northeast, as record rain hits California; a Palestinian teen will be jailed for slapping an Israeli soldier; and a Boston TV personality who played "Bozo the Clown" has died.

Also: The international Nuclear Summit opens in Washington today; tornadoes strike Oklahoma; and Nobel Prize winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész dies, who'd written about the Holocaust.

Also: Syrian peace talks resume but in separate rooms; Britain suffers flooding after the wettest January ever; North Korea rescinds its invitation to a U.S. diplomat to visit and discuss imprisoned American Kenneth Bae; and a game developer withdraws "Flappy Bird" app, claiming it ruined his life.

Also: Vice President Biden welcomes the NRA to the White House to discuss gun violence; Syria fires a new ballistic missile at northern rebels; Indian defense lawyer blames victim for her brutal rape and murder; a pod of killer whales is trapped by arctic ice in far northern Canada.