Headlines from July 3, 2008
- Citing spiritual and moral crisis, Russia aims to flatten its youth's social landscape.
- The dying phenomenon of the college yearbook.
- Truly intelligent people know how to improvise well. Academics don't. The problem with memory-based education.
- The flag pin was popularized by Richard Nixon, who got the idea after seeing Robert Redford wear one in a movie.
- Tracking the African economy with the changing price of a bottle of Coca-Cola.
- "[The chicken] was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive." An Olympic disaster guide.
- Why the media's fascination with the pregnant man isn't helping transgender politics.
- Now dogs can have nine lives too--an interview with a biotech entrepreneur and his cloned pets.
- David Cronenberg's The Fly is made into an opera (finally).
- How to make a 12-sided-die purse.
- As olive oil, mozzarella costs soar, Italians eschew pizza, chew pasta.
- Artist walks 100 miles to complete massive drawing in sand.
- Beyond SNAFU: bad military acronyms.
- Colombian soldiers infiltrate rebels, liberate 15 hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt.
- How the raid was carried out; visiting Colombia, McCain was briefed beforehand.
- How the Republicans took over "patriotism"--blame pastels in 1988.
- "They are not really interested in fighting the battles that have been fought over the last 20 years." As baby boomers retire, campuses go moderate.
- Conservative critics divided over whether a cartoon robot is mongering liberalism or proving them right.
- Al Qaeda's strength may depend on free advertising by world governments.
- Op: Voters do not care how uninformed they are--even if it constitutes a threat to national security.
- Somewhere in Cheshire is a seriously melancholy thief. Ian Curtis's headstone stolen.
- Oil hits record high of $146 a barrel; oil-rich countries turn to coal.
- Which is more economical: Using your car's air conditioning or driving with the windows down?
- Next to Nadal, one part sweatband, three parts biceps, the Scot looked like a lanky adolescent who had taken the wrong door.
- Polygamist sect responds to public demand, begins selling children's versions of its modest prairie dresses.
- "The minute you put the logo on it, it becomes a New Yorker cover." Rea Irvin and his defining typeface.