Headlines from July 9, 2008
- Webb emphatically exits V.P. race after Obama campaign tries to get personal during background check.
- "Reverse earmarks" included in the federal budget.
- When the Left and Right both agree on compulsory national service, who's left to complain?
- Pray at the Pump's group gas-station worship wants God to bring down gas prices.
- Value of U.S. exports to Iran reportedly increased tenfold since Bush took office; tobacco and bull semen prove popular.
- Villagers in remote part of India paid wage to use the toilet.
- The first question to ask is whether the impact of speech on wages is a causal one. Study on the salary impacts of "sounding black" or "sounding southern."
- Erard: English gradually to become more Chinese; "Chinglish is destined to take on a life of its own."
- Also by Erard: Speech disturbances occur ever 4.4 seconds, and you should adore them.
- American TV watching up, to the equivalent of five full days per month.
- How to help save monarch butterflies by making ultraviolet signs pointing them to milkweed flowers.
- With examples, history of the tracking shot.
- Perhaps not a hero for contemporary women, Anne of Green Gables remains right up there with Huck Finn.
- Stephen Elliott recounts an interview with the Linux-programming genius who murdered his wife.
- Researchers give octopi Rubik's Cubes, wait to see what happens next.
- Praise, criticism for the G-8 summit's embrace of a goal to halve greenhouse gases by 2050--some say it's not aggressive enough.
- Ministry of Truth: Cheney attempts to delete evidence of climate change's impact on human health from public record.
- Beijing Olympics threatened by extremists, climate, boycott; proposes to be a games without incident.
- "If they're ugly and can't find work, there's nothing I can do." In the 2020s, 10 percent of Chinese men won't be able to land wives.
- In Saudi Arabia, imprisoned militants are reformed amongst ping-pong, video-games, religious debate.
- McCain drops border rhetoric, courts Latino vote; Obama warns against McCain's flip, courts Latino vote.
- Negotiating with Obama on speech site, Germany seeks to avoid an illusion of endorsement.
- Iran test-fires nine missiles, warns U.S., Israel that it's ready to retaliate if attacked.
- McCain shows off his famous humor, quips that cigarettes are one way to kill Iranians.
- South Pacific island plans to become entirely smoke-free.
- A rapper called Sticky Fingaz used a body double to sneak into the courthouse undetected. How the notable enter and leave Manhattan courthouses.
- Believing he's the target of a frivolous lawsuit, Omar Sharif does nothing, plans to continue doing so.
- After a third man attempts to scale the new Times building, some may wonder why it's built like a big ladder.