Monday Telegraph Room

... The weather is so hot and the news is so slow there isn't even enough for the summer interns to cover. ... The day's top story has to be the fact the Mariners beat the Bozo-Sox with help from an inside-the-park home run by Adrian Beltre. ...

... An environmental review filed with the Federal Aviation Administration for the Texas space program bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos reveals that—well, it doesn't actually reveal much at all. Never mind. ...

... Insurance won't pay for that brain transplant you've been contemplating? Have it done in Malaysia, where it's a whole lot cheaper. This is called medical tourism. ... The city and Broadway merchants today will announce a big revitalization of that stricken street on Crapitol Hill, and it will include new garbage cans. ...

... The Times profiles Victor Gray (pictured), the 80-year-old engineer who insists we just retrofit the Alaskan Way Viaduct—a man who, by virtue of his age, is possibly the person least likely to be alive when it collapses in an earthquake. He certainly won't be driving on it: He lives in Port Townsend. ... The Department of Homeland Security is making metro Seattle-Tacoma emergency planners prepare for multiday mass evacuation at great cost of time and money, reports the News Tribune, apparently just in case a hurricane swoops down from Alaska or something. The state emergency services director says the feds who reviewed the state plan seemed to view earthquakes as a "theoretical abstraction." ...