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.