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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. You've probably heard that the Supreme Court is set to rule sometime soon on an important case about affirmative action in higher education. We decided we wanted to find out more about the young woman whose name is on the case, Abigail Fisher. That's coming up later in the program.

If economists were cheerleaders, their favorite shout-out might be: "What do we want? Growth! When do we want it? Now!"

They won't actually shout those words, but they may be thinking them as global leaders meet this week for a G-8 summit. Economists are hoping that at the gathering in Northern Ireland, leaders of eight major economies will discuss expanding global trade and investment to spur job creation.

Domestic violence statistics are often shocking. One organization says that these statistics won’t change until men get involved. Now, a Native American advocacy organization and leader are getting people involved in the group A Call To Men.

Ted Bunch, with A Call To Men, recently gave a presentation to about two hundred people at Northern New Mexico College in Espanola.

Officials say crews have contained the majority of the 94 square miles of wildfires raging throughout the New Mexico.

The Thompson Ridge Fire, the state's largest blaze at 37 square miles, is now 80 percent contained as of Monday. On the other side of the Santa Fe National Forest, the nearly 16-square mile Tres Lagunas fire north of Pecos was 90 percent contained.

Crews on Tuesday night will begin transporting a 910,000-pound electric transformer from Kewa Pueblo to Chili.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/ZVRinb) that the transformer for Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Inc. will arrive at its final destination Wednesday.

The trailer will take up two lanes along the route and travel at speeds varying from 5 to 30 mph.

Hunters still have a chance to get a license to hunt deer or javelina in New Mexico in the 2013-2014 season.

The state Game and Fish Department is holding an online sale later this month of more 2,500 deer hunting licenses and nearly 900 javelina licenses.

The licenses were left over after the department's annual drawing for hunting permits.

New Mexico's congressional delegation has introduced a bill aimed at improving tribal education and preserving Native American language in schools.

The state's two senators and three representatives all signed on to the proposal, which they say would remove barriers that tribal leaders often encounter in teaching Native languages at school, improve on existing programs and partnerships and create new incentives and scholarship programs to encourage educational success throughout Indian Country.

About 85 percent of 276 oil and gas well sites inspected in southeastern New Mexico over the past six weeks have failed to pass after-the-fact electrical safety inspections.

Correction notices were issued to those sites that received a "failed" grade. None has been ordered to stop operations.