Headlines from June 4, 2010
- Obama cancels Asia trip to focus on oil spill; Free Gaza says new ship is on schedule.
- Wieseltier: Israel does not need enemies: it has its government.
- Long Island prodigy recommends plugging the oil leak with tires.
- Baghdad's U.S. embassy reports property worth millions gone missing.
- Six Russian astronauts seal themselves away for 520 days on a virtual trip to Mars.
- Photos: Evolution of the World Cup's soccer balls (birds in oil).
- Life in Iceland: Clothes boiled in urine; thrift and hard work; lots of sex.
- Overview of current technology being tested to port data into consciousness.
- Instapaper: Colombian family, struck for generations by Alzheimer's, becomes "center stage" for new early-onset treatment.
- Thank God Galarraga got a Corvette out of the whole deal; it keeps me from being stuck on sincere.
- College student suspended after Tweeting "threatening" comments ("playing with fire and oil").
- Game designer creates a literary mashup of Horatio Alger and Oregon Trail.
- Wal-Mart to offer employees college credit through web-based university.
- New Jersey soon to enact America's toughest pro-pot laws.
- Mongooses pass traditions to their young.
- Wonderful, long meander about the tradition of note-taking.
- Fill-in-the-blank personal letter from Steve Martin.