Wyoming

(Newser) - Outside magazine selects 30 sweet spots—the best towns for mixing city life with the big outdoors—and, oh yeah, getting a job, too.  Here are the top nine:

1. Santa Cruz, California
2. Jackson, Wyoming
3. Iowa City, Iowa
4. Bend, Oregon
5. Santa Fe, New Mexico

(Newser) - Craig Thomas, GOP Senator from Wyoming, died yesterday of  leukemia at age 74. The popular conservative congressman began his Senate career in 1994; he was in the hospital when he was reelected by 70% of the vote last year, and announced his diagnosis shortly afterward.