Headlines from June 4, 2008
- Print for the commute: Recognizing environmental problems in China means also acknowledging China's doing some things right.
- China arrests grieving parents at public protest of shoddy school construction; parents press on.
- Measuring high oil prices' potential impact on the sushi trade.
- While discussing the food crisis, politicians eat a menu of more modest ingredients than in previous years.
- The price of beer around the world.
- Cheney doesn't win points calling West Virginians in-breds.
- Oddly titillating: phone details on how Obama and Hillary contact each other.
- Perceiving sarcasm is a mental ability you can lose.
- John Grisham learned everything he needed to know about foreshadowing on writerszone.com.
- "Less is more." Jim Davis admits that some "Garfield Minus Garfield" strips work better than his originals (see strips here).
- New play follows movie star Hedy Lamarr's role as an inventor of radio signal technology.
- "Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion." Brad Pitt to design hotel in Dubai, affordable homes in New Orleans.
- Statue of Liberty soon to gain a rival on the shores of Mumbai, celebrating deified guerilla king Shivaji.
- Audio: Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad pairs more classical musicians with rock and electronic acts (see also, Abumrad's favorite movie music).
- As the Democratic contest draws to a close, superdelegates no longer fear their phones.
- Graphic: Superdelegates take a mighty swing to Obama; a catalog of superdelegates, their endorsements.
- Republican denied communion for endorsing Obama; priest asked to step down for mocking Clinton.
- Photos of the Large Hadron Particle Collider, built to reproduce the conditions produced by the Big Bang.
- German nursing homes use replicas of bus stops to find wandering Alzheimer's patients.
- Cloth wipes meant to kill MRSA in hospitals actually spread it, again proving the might of the superbug.
- Designer of Pringles tube is buried in one; Kurt Cobain's ashes possibly stolen.
- Who needs rice when you have millet? Alternatives to consider during a global rice shortage.
- For sale: One vilified vehicle division. Hummer acknowledges gas prices, considers new strategy.
- Feather cosmetics on male birds attracts mates, boosts testosterone; feeling trends, U.S. necktie association folds.
- Step 2: Learn the Running Man. Six ways to get laid at a summer camp in 1986.
- Vandals of Robert Frost's cabin ordered to take poetry class as punishment.
- Pair turn Heart of Darkness into an opera, ask audiences for constructive feedback.