Headlines from August 18, 2009
- Iraqi government considers a referendum that would allow voters to oust U.S. troops early.
- The story behind TehranBureau.com, which dutifully covers Iran despite not actually being there.
- Hoping to head off mental health problems, the Army plans to require all troops undergo emotional resiliency training.
- Reporter travels to Fiji to investigate the bottled water, is threatened by a military regime eager to defend the brand.
- Louisiana prisoners evoke 1980s Ireland by staging hunger strikes in protest of jail conditions.
- American and two Russians indicted on charges of carrying out the largest hacking and identity-theft crime in U.S. history.
- Honesty is only an automatic process for some people; others unconsciously choose between lying and telling the truth.
- Nimis, a micronation in Sweden, is home to nomads and illegal sculpture--but not hopeful Pakistani refugees.
- A big reason Americans don't bike more is because there's too many parking spots for cars--and most of them are free.
- I found myself on an uninterrupted two-mile stretch with no visible way in or out ahead of me. A 14-mile run through New York's baseball history.
- Film adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov ends where most people stop reading book.
- "The Merchant of Tennis" and 49 other stores with puns for names.
- "And you are?" Everything Don Draper said in the first season of Mad Men.
- Hitchens: Yale Press's capitulation on the Mohammed cartoons is a tub of rot.
- Mood report in Afghanistan: "Do not vote on Thursday, or we will punish you. Signed, the Taliban."
- Chronic stress found to rewire the brain to promote further feelings of being highly stressed.
- Op: If alive today, Zora Neale Hurston would be a Fox News pundit.
- Over-emailed politicos spice up their BlackBerrys with saucy subject lines.
- Roger Ebert adores the term "death panels," and would like to sing to you the praises of public medicine.
- Interactive map of failed American banks; Slideshow: Goodbye Dubai?
- Tennis fans have lots to follow on Twitter.
- Elusive Thomas Pynchon picks out a playlist for his new book.
- Things you may not know about the workings of scientific journals.
- Jupiter's black eye and nine other signs of a rough-and-tumble universe.
- The nurse was still looking at me. "I hear she's a whiner," I said hopefully. Gripping, moving account of a doctor's first night on call.
- Account of the real family Evelyn Waugh loved and later used for Brideshead Revisited.