Headlines from August 13, 2008
- National Geographic story hunts for Persia's life-loving roots in Iran's intolerant present.
- Russian Times online readers answer questions about Russia and Georgia.
- Op: It will take skill and patience to get Russia to a soft landing, and Moscow's record at soft landings is not good.
- McCain (and Obama to some degree) talk one way about the energy crisis and fundamentally act another.
- Latitude lacks in McCain's anti-choice actions, even if his statements are muddled.
- Independent fact-checkers work to quell "conservative echo-chamber" surrounding anti-Obama book; author says they're "nit-picking."
- Millions relieved after Reverend Wright's new upcoming book is revealed not to exist.
- It'll be the kids growing up with an Obama presidency who could change race politics forever.
- Post-Hillary, seven Democratic women to watch.
- The secret to the perfect hair that doesn't seem to move is horse cartilage. Quasi-science facts about synchronized swimming.
- What contemporary China really looks like: Picture China.
- Photos of blue screens of death from Beijing's opening ceremonies.
- British journalist roughed up by Beijing police at pro-Tibet protest in formerly mistranslated "Racist Park."
- Guide to pirating the Olympics, then and now.
- Even if it means "panda porn," China wants finicky pandas to mate more.
- Russian tanks still patrol the town of Gori, in Georgia, where bombs fell well beyond the ceasefire.
- Gorbachev: By declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its "national interest," the U.S. made a serious blunder.
- Op: Though no one wants a nuclear Iran, China and Russia benefit from sanctions against Tehran--selling arms, filling gaps left by European firms.
- Russian youth feel the power of the Western media, join Chinese counterparts in unconventional warfare on the web.
- China and America's posturing, ability to blow up satellites, threatens the technological revolution.
- Mark Penn...urged the New York senator's campaign to paint Barack Obama as "fundamentally" foreign.
- With new medal wins, Michael Phelps, "The King of Chlorine," becomes the most decorated Olympian of all time.
- Video: U.S. engineers explain how flow research will help swimmers get even faster.
- One non-carbonated beverage's attempt to break into the SoBe/Snapple/VitaminWater market.
- China's looming crisis: millions of overpressurized, hypereducated children in a nation that can't fulfill their expectations.
- The hardships of Yale alums as they struggle with insecurity in the face of their privileges.