Headlines from June 26, 2007
- In a "gesture of goodwill," Israel to release 250 Palestinian prisoners.
- Zimbabwe government orders all prices halved to fight a soaring inflation rate--3,700 percent at last check.
- Delegitimization of state, factionalized elites: The Failed States Index doesn't leave much to the imagination.
- Chatty doctors cross the line from good bedside manner to poor caregiving.
- Germany may ban Gmail if it doesn't give up user anonymity, Tom Cruise, if he doesn't drop Scientology.
- Tourism in Rome is booming and bingeing, and the locals aren't happy.
- New truant officers catch kids breaking school district residency requirements as they cross the border from Mexico.
- CIA releases their ca. 1973 "Family Jewels." (More background here.)
- In case you hadn't known Orson Welles voiced the original Transformers movie, Orson Welles voiced the original Transformers movie.
- World's fastest known supercomputer simulates exactly one half of a mouse brain.
- Video: Unlock a car door with a tennis ball.
- Kobayashi, TMN's favorite competitive eater, downed by arthritic jaw.
- Krakow soon to have some seriously excellent chicken vindaloo.
- Supreme Court significantly weakens McCain-Feingold's restrictions on special-interest-funded ads.
- What America knows, a Newsweek poll suggesting that John Roberts could be hotter.
- This week's must reads: The Post's "Angler" series about Cheney's term.
- George Packer's four theories on why high officials always seem to know less than anyone else.
- Held prisoner in a Chinese toy factory, a reporter sees dysfunction in the marriage of government and industry.
- Op: Rationale for random trials in the global-aid business.
- Blair lands new job as Middle East peace envoy, in charge of preparing Palestinians for negotiations with Israel.
- This generation will become a very violent generation, much worse than during Saddam Hussein's regime.
- Review of current Russian news items.
- Data shows nurturing playing a significant role in perception of racially different faces.
- Names of the born and the dead in France.
- Music dies today: Webcasters go silent to protest upcoming higher royalty rates.
- Today's long read: Really, the record industry is dead: the story of the decline.
- Summer escapes when you don't feel like leaving Brooklyn.
- Seasonal warnings on why not to pour white wine too cold; One must also consider the oyster.
- How to (somewhat) painlessly purge your books.
- Do we choose to live in a world that honors writers or in a world that kills them?
- All things related to the honorable history of the great American grocery store.
- TMN wants to give (one of) you a new iPod--don't you want a new iPod?