Headlines from August 26, 2010

The Journal stitches BP documents, public testimony, and new interviews to recreate Deepwater Horizon's final hours.
The farmer at the center of the salmonella outbreak has a history of legal tussles over selling contaminated eggs.
"Where are the bulls?" The new land of opportunity for refugees: American farms.
A trip to the N.Y. Civil Court confirms immigrants no longer Americanize their names.
For this month's "Of Recent Note," tell us your hot summer jam from this or any summer.
Pakistan blocks extremist groups from flood relief.
Though rumors of imminent attacks on aid workers in Pakistan are unfounded, relief security has been on lockdown.
Iran cracks down on dog owners imitating Westerners who "love their dogs more than their wives and children."
Defense secretary considers cracking down on military band spending.
The British screenwriter who wrote 1966's Casino Royale was under MI5 investigation for engaging with the enemy.
"It turns out" turns out to be a linguistic trick that trains readers to bypass logic.
Op: Polyamory may be a natural trait, but emotions keep it in check.
Arguments against consequentialism show Peter Parker is not morally responsible to be Spider-Man.
While Medvedev drank tea with Bono, Putin warned bears and shot a whale.
Venezuela's population is the same as Iraq's, but its murder count is three times as high.
Potentially to blame for China's epic traffic jam: King Coal.
Due to China's hunger for vehicle ownership, a traffic jam was inevitable.
Hilarious response to a dermatologist telling the Times that e-readers will erase "stigmas associated with reading alone."
Op: Neurophilosophy will not replace philosophy--questions about mind are not exhaustible by investigation of the brain.
Debate about mind versus brain complicates depression treatment.
Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. The case for tossing your smartphone.
Editor (unsuccessfully) tries dating site based on book taste.
The cameraman just walks away, and you want to die. PEN/Ackerley nominee on losing literary prizes.
Explanation of how writers make money.
Royals historically pursued incest to behave like gods and protect assets.
Pictures by Barry Goldwater, amateur photographer.
Op: Hopper wasn't a nostalgic painter, but a pessimistic one who conveyed silence and isolation.
Nearly 50 years after Hemingway's suicide, A Moveable Feast remains "a masterpiece of malice."
More in the summer of TMN books: Jessica Francis Kane on the time it took to write The Report.