Headlines from July 7, 2008
- Literary critic judges Obama based on his prose.
- Op: If Obama wants change, he should quit talking about the start of the Iraq invasion and find an honorable way to end it.
- Rising temperature of coffee deemed hoax perpetuated by anti-caffeine lobby.
- Hot jocks and variations online, in this week's Digital Ramble.
- Salon and Sarah Hepola begin a week in bacon, kicking it off with fashion statements.
- Studies suggest that people establish a wine price comfort zone (and corresponding wine shelf) and stay there.
- "If you can get the person across from you to laugh, they probably won't kill you." Palestinian-American comic with cerebral palsy takes her jokes to the Middle East, and to Hollywood.
- It takes a tiger: In China, officials punished for faked big cat photo; it takes patience: Michael Vick's dogs are being rehabilitated.
- Native Americans celebrate the resilience of their culture, war veterans, and hope on July 4th.
- The pie that ate itself: experts say our world was created by Pangaea's "self-subduction."
- Argument for the objective beauty of wind farms.
- Constitutional rights aren't guaranteed online when corporate overseers dislike your words or pictures.
- Profile of New York subway portrait-sketchers.
- Video: A subway full of identical twins.
- In Afghanistan, officials claim two U.S. airstrikes have killed dozens of civilians; coalition disputes reports, says only militants were present.
- Following Iraqi's P.M. declaration of victory over terrorism, a string of attacks kills 16, injures 15.
- Closing the door on the Hussein regime, U.A.E. restores diplomatic relations with Iraq, cancels debt.
- With the Olympics now a month out, China curtails its polluters--the economic effect is felt abroad.
- Seeking to maintain the GOP platform, conservative activists prepare to battle McCain over global warming, stem cells, immigration.
- New study finds voter turnout is affected by social activity genes.
- Video: David Lynch on the origin of ideas.
- There is something vulgar, almost absurd, in the notion of a Mrs. Plato or a Mme. Descartes, or of Wittgenstein on a honeymoon. On the abundance of bachelor geniuses.
- Nadal bests Federer in epic Wimbledon final; watch video highlights here.
- Muscle-mapping T-shirts could be used to improve your tennis swing.
- Slim Goodbody, he of the organ-painted bodysuit, still educating, still 155 pounds.
- Drug offers the longevity benefits of calorie restriction--without restricting calories.
- Video: The Showbiz Pizza Band performs Usher's "Love in This Club."