Headlines from July 8, 2009
- Here Obama is reprimanding Moscow on several points. What Obama said and what Russians heard.
- A new iPhone app reveals a subtlety of New York transit life: knowing which subway car to board so you're let off at the right exit.
- You've mastered the subway; now become a better rider, walker, and deli orderer with our "Guide to Urban Etiquette."
- Though inaccurate, restaurants' caloric disclosures can influence diners to order healthier meals.
- What the W.H.O. wants you to know about that virus: Assume it's swine flu, and don't rely on Tamiflu.
- Recent wins for gun-rights activists allow concealed weapons almost anywhere except for college campuses.
- Students with deer rifles were leaning up against telephone poles... And they were firing like crazy back at the Tower.
- After 40 years, the iconic couple in the blanket from the Woodstock album cover is still together.
- Some rules of thumb to determine whether or not you're in a cult.
- An on-demand book printing machine is a hit in Vermont.
- What to read to make you smarter (or dumber).
- Rediscovering Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa, an obscure Nathaniel Hawthorne tome.
- Fortunately, more people are murdered every year in the pages of Scandinavian crime novels than are murdered in Scandinavia itself.
- When the unemployed percentage equals the percentage of the stimulus paid out, the White House pleads for patience.
- Europe worries U.S. will cut a cheap deal with China on climate change.
- Germany's Iron Cross is back, but now it's an "Honour" Cross, and it's being awarded during a "relation" in Afghanistan.
- Foreign Policy's 2009 Failed States Index.
- Mugabe calls U.S. envoy "an idiot," improving on "a little American girl trotting around like a prostitute."
- Grappling with the implications of an abortion party; the pro-life case for masturbation.
- The very act of seeing oneself as a good person can make it harder to avoid doing immoral things.
- Sitting at the feet of greats, mastering a tradition and taking it in your own direction: how philosophy is like jazz.
- Why Jackson was buried brainless: Pathologists aren't finished with the post-mortem exam.
- To understand the benefits and troubles of life in Sweden, begin with sex.
- Four cases where tearing down a highway improves city life.
- "Ballhawks" stalk baseball stadiums for famous homeruns, holding them ransom for prizes.
- Related: Balls that ballhawks hope to catch soon.
- Wimbledon as more than tennis, having "mastered the art of imperceptible change, so slow, so constant."
- Instapaper: Beyond title recognition, why marketers would use North by Northwest to sell anything is a mystery.