Headlines from June 30, 2010
- In Senate hearings, Republicans attack Kagan by lobbing potshots at Thurgood Marshall.
- While on paper Kagan appears to be made out of, well, paper, in person she lights up a room.
- A study suggests those who are reserved are more likely to become violent when drunk.
- Scientists suspect Tut's penis was stolen to prevent posthumous size embarrassment.
- [Aung San Suu Kyi] is locked away in people's hearts and minds and interior rooms.
- For the first time since 2002, Roger Federer is defeated at Wimbledon.
- How technology connects us to the Arctic, "where the passing of what has gone will be most fully recorded."
- Video: Clay Shirky describes how we're multitasking our way toward a better world.
- Since their arrival in March, Brooklyn Bridge Park's metal domes have burned many little hands--and are now being removed.
- An article supposes restaurants hate food bloggers, though not as much as journalists writing about food bloggers apparently do.
- Slideshow: What, if anything, is Big Bird?
- How St. Elsewhere's many crossovers imply nearly the whole of television exists only in Tommy Westphall's mind.
- Reprint: U.S. may have been abused during formative years.
- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah: "There are two countries in the world who do not deserve to exist: Iran and Israel."
- Op: Arabs who love the idea of Palestinians as permanent victims dump on Fayyad's state-building.
- Half of Afghanistan's 476 women prisoners were detained for "moral crimes"--e.g., refusing to marry, or marrying without their family's wishes.
- Citizens in lower-IQ countries waste early brain power fighting parasites, scientists suggest.
- Romanian dictator's pageantry and rule reconstructed through film montage.
- Numerical breakdown of Forbes's meaningless Celebrity 100 list.
- Profile of Anna Chapman, face of the latest Russian spy ring.
- No slaughtering sheep in the backyard. Russia readies etiquette handbook for immigrants moving to Moscow.
- Related: TMN staff and readers discuss favorite conspiracy theories.
- Take one: Kagan likes an evolving Constitution--as did Marshall and Thomas Jefferson.
- Take two: Kagan called nominee hearings "vapid" and "hollow," and is keeping them that way.
- India's new census to survey a billion people in 45 days with 2.7 million enumerators.
- Finding success, Panera to expand new non-profit restaurant model, where customers pay what they can.
- Despite being a "global powerhouse" in lawn-bowling, South Africa's champions "hang back" during the World Cup.
- FIFA apologizes for officiating errors and says it will reconsider goal-line technology.
- Round-up of Louis CK's greatest hits.
- Results from the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest for worst first sentence.