Headlines from August 30, 2010
- Though research may now be in peril, the first stem cell therapy trials in humans are fast approaching.
- Adam Clayton Powell IV takes aim at Charles Rangel, who usurped his father, who he mostly knew through letters.
- O.E.D. signals a full move to the web--its latest print edition may be its last.
- More frequent use of swear words indicates deception. How to tell when your boss is lying.
- For struggling roadside attractions, it's either gimmick it up or go home.
- The future of Britain's food costs is in question, with no end in sight to its disappearing wildlife.
- The cinema is still, after several decades, the no. 1 place teens claim to be. Y.A. novelist Grace Dent reveals what she's learned about her audience.
- Researchers find people who feel clean judge others more harshly.
- The misleading world of Atari 2600 box art: side-by-side comparisons to the on-screen games.
- See also: Todd Levin's "Consoles I Have Known," a look back at a lifetime of video game systems.
- History of a legendary mathematics award, and the notion of mathematician as romantic hero.
- Agatha Christie's family attacks Wikipedia for revealing famous twist endings.
- Scientists discover a new Peruvian language on the back of a letter.
- "Dropout factory" label works for colleges, too, and low-income minority students are disproportionately steered toward them.
- Two days after last week's anti-PowerPoint op-ed by a U.S. colonel, N.A.T.O. command sacked him.
- Second Mexican border-state mayor assassinated in two weeks.
- Op: Nationalism is killing the E.U., turning it into a union in name only.
- Scientists fear humans are like the wooly mammoth: symbol of a climate that no longer exists.
- Op: Women borrow drag queens' art not simply to look like women but to feel like them.
- Pro tennis players suggest Federer's William Tell video is fake.
- Politeness enforcement tactics, and a great queue-jumping story.
- Alan Richman's tactics for ordering wines in a restaurant; Alan Moore on "psychogeography," or poetry.
- Jacob Lambert on the danger of children's books.
- Related: TMN writers' kids report on their summer reading (and what authors are paid).
- Top 20 books from independent presses this fall.
- Sponsored contest beginning tomorrow: This week, TMN is giving away 20 copies of Tom McCarthy's C.
- Thoughts about Bolaño while visiting a Chi-Chi's in Belgium.
- Slideshow of a 137-day decomposition (or not) of a Happy Meal.
- Man completes San Francisco half-marathon while drinking a beer for every mile run.