Headlines from June 22, 2011
- Former U.S. political advisor returns to post-American Baghdad as a tourist, watches tennis, rides jet-ski.
- As Wimbledon bemoans female players' ever-loudening grunts, peruse video of the worst offenders.
- Car door slams, ATM whirrs, and other fake sounds; even more auditory shams.
- In a reversal of the Great Migration, many black New Yorkers seek a fresh economic start in the South.
- A new documentary gives the Jelly Belly creator, who regretted ever selling his invention, new hope.
- "I'd rather buy food from someone who used Roundup once than someone who uses organic pesticides all the time."
- To fix the deficit, negotiators must make philosophical decisions: Cut for immediate gains or to kindle future economic growth?
- Group discussion on disappearing online anonymity explores a fear that people will stop expressing their true selves.
- Here, the reporter-to-real-people ratio took its true toll. Aboard the Huntsman bus, destination: unknown.
- Seven months after its owner pled guilty to felony tax evasion, H&H Bagels closes its Upper West Side location.
- Video: Thurston Moore talks shop, plays new songs in his apartment.
- Related: Listen to the first album from Coco Gordon Moore's punk band.
- I'm 26. Conversations about going gray.
- Bill Murray reads poetry at Poets House, assures audience his black eyes are from makeup, not assault.
- Bahrain sentences activists to life sentences in attempt to crush dissent.
- Obama's Afghanistan war wind-down speech will please neither stick-to-it generals nor flee-fast supporters.
- Sixty-three percent of Pakistanis disapprove of bin Laden's killing; more than half say it's "a bad thing" he's dead.
- California spends $308 million per execution, or $4 billion since 1978.
- Surprisingly enjoyable travel article set in overly enjoyed Provence.
- Video: Helsinki elected world's most liveable city.
- CNN poll conducted since 1993 finds Americans shifting toward more libertarian views.
- U.S. chooses nine images to cover cigarette packages and discourage smoking.
- How to make back-of-the-envelope calculations like a start-up founder: The Rule of 72.
- We're not just an Amazon showroom. Bookstores begin charging customers to attend readings.
- Google Maps pin becomes quasi-icon: a graphic appreciation.
- Profile of "the next bin Laden," American-born son of a presidential adviser.
- Fascinating conversation about new studies into animal feelings, with author saying all vertebrate animals are sentient.
- Visual mysteries: why these heads?; who these people? (never mind--identified!).
- Anyone pictured on the internet--including lovers during a Vancouver riot--can be identified quickly.
- Teenagers ordered to return their yearbooks or face charges of possession of child pornography.
- Haiku grew from social poetry that had people gathering for marathon "linking" sessions.
- Like an idiot child screaming in a hospital. Author-on-author hatred.