Headlines from June 29, 2010

A deep dive into the many reasons New Yorkers now live longer than other Americans.
How the latest New York subway closures and other city proposals will keep the working poor working and poor.
For straphangers looking for love, the L is your best bet--and the site of the most missed connections.
Thanks to evolution, people can quickly tell if someone attractive is looking at them.
Competitive men are akin to chimpanzees; the laid-back act like bonobos.
Engineer flouts legend, posits Archimedes defeated ships with cannons, not mirrors.
After today, N.Y. public schools will no longer have "rubber rooms" to hold teachers accused of wrongdoing.
Keep up those 4.0's and you'll end up wherever you please. Lil Wayne responds to fans from jail.
"Speed Sisters" become first Palestinian women to compete in street races.
A profile of Harper Lee explores the trauma that shaped Mockingbird.
How iPhone production now influences international business.
"We didn't want to have a 100% requirement and be a deterrent to large companies." The fight for fair-trade chocolate.
Scientists invent origami "paper" that folds itself.
Feds bust identity-thieving, Morse Code-using Russian spy ring; Russians reject allegations.
Georgia claims it's under a U.S. arms embargo; more likely, no one wants to upset Russia.
Profile of Tolstoy's grandson, fallen from aristocracy to a $213 monthly income.
Israel opposes Russia's recent advances toward Hamas, comparing the group to Islamist Chechen rebels.
U.K. chancellor proposes putting everyone to work, with coma patients to be enlisted as draft-excluders (not really).
See also: Eight-year-old accidentally exercises Second Amendment rights.
Op: Forgoing a citizen army creates endless war.
TMN's Mike Deri Smith follows McChrystal's diet routine for seven days.
Op: N.E.A. lifetime achievement awards are a waste of money.
Tour through Mexico's La Central food market, second only to the Mexican stock exchange in business volume.
Cartels kill Mexican gubernatorial candidate, highest-profile political assassination since 1994.
Oldie but goodie finds Michael Pollan growing opium poppies.
Audio: New Radiolab episode about unintended consequences.
The art of cause and effect in a single comic frame.
Reality TV is currently in its peak-oil phase, thus explaining our love for the Côte Crass and all Snookis.