Headlines from July 10, 2009
- France's "children of the Huns," now in their 60s, try to find their German fathers.
- Monkeys on restricted diets live longer; some scientists say more monkeys need to die before gleaning any lessons.
- Fear of the opposite sex is also believed to be the cause of Lesbianism. Time's 1966 piece, "The Homosexual in America."
- An illustrated history of sex in advertising.
- Everyone is fleeing MySpace, and whites and Asians are fleeing in larger numbers. Facebook vs. MySpace isn't exactly white flight.
- Liberal Arts colleges are in danger of becoming recession collateral.
- Two years after his forced retirement, beleaguered ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finds a teaching gig in Texas.
- Princeton professor says Sotomayor's time on campus made her "equal to the best of her generation."
- The passions of Sonia Sotomayor: Nobu, white Saabs, Greenwich Village specialty shops.
- Gallery of harlequin NASCAR romance novels.
- Open letter to Dwell magazine suggest rewrites for the table of contents.
- Architecture's new wave lacks walls.
- Pentagon health experts want to ban tobacco use by U.S. troops.
- California's illegal pot farms resemble terrorist cells--they're guarded by Uzi-wielding militants, and no one knows who runs them.
- Please suspend any chemo-phobia you may have while reading this. The science behind decaf coffee.
- Op: Swearing, an American tradition.
- Books not only furnish a room...but also accessorize our outfits. They help brand our identities. Wolcott looks at a world without books.