Headlines from August 21, 2009
- Low turnout for Afghan elections; no official results expected for several weeks.
- Over the last two years, the rich are not only not getting richer, they're getting poorer.
- The weekend's white paper: The threat of sexual violence during the American Civil War.
- Predicting Iran's future in nukes based on appointment tea leaves is like cold-war Kremlin-watching: wishful thinking.
- Corollating big-time movie stars and a film's success is "largely a myth," especially this summer.
- Flimmakers scuba dive beneath the Hagia Sophia, find possible dungeons, hundreds of submerged graves.
- Study finds that, without the sun or moon in the sky, hikers go in circles.
- Believed current locations of NASA's "Moon Trees," trees that have been to space and back.
- Audio of "The Wandering Soul"; account of migraine typing.
- Well-dressed, bilingual man with no identity surfaces in Seattle; Seattle Times readers identify him.
- Discussion of how "crimes of difference" are punished in Infinite Jest.
- At least 25 schools asked Anheuser-Busch to quit dressing beer cans in school colors.
- From Mother Jones, a more holistic, imaginative guide to America's best colleges.
- Alphabetical listing of the best food-related websites.
- Track-by-track tribute to The Clash's Sandinista Project.
- Video: How to make nice pasta and homemade English muffins in a hotel room.
- Video proof that "dude" is the most versatile word in the English language.