Headlines from June 29, 2011
- Space station crew prepared for impact with a piece of space garbage--one of thousands in orbit from previous missions.
- After 16 years of requiring large buildings to commission public art, Seoul is littered with eyesores.
- Texas town lays off its local police force over budgetary woes, braces for crime spike.
- Dr Pepper files suit against Dublin Dr Pepper for distributing beyond a six-county territory in Texas.
- Peculiar borders, including the Hopi Nation within the Navajo Nation within Arizona within the U.S., who share differing views of time.
- With victory seemingly in hand, the historical rewrite is in full swing. Wall Street won, and you lost.
- Federal investigation finds Upper Big Branch, where 29 men died last year, faked safety records.
- Questioning Supreme Court justices' "extrajudicial activity," off-term attendance at political fundraisers.
- More judges are showing off writing chops, peppering decisions with pop culture, rhyme schemes.
- "If you don't have that equipment, you basically fall off the radar of life itself." Times readers make the case for low-cost artificial limbs.
- For the second consecutive Wimbledon, Federer falls in the quarterfinals.
- "You can't get more French than this." Parisians hungry for heritage travel out of the city, back in time.
- Remaining Pythons reunite to lend voices to upcoming Graham Chapman biopic.
- Tau Day, controversial alternative to Pi Day, passed by largely unnoticed yesterday.
- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attack landmark Afghan hotel, among Kabul's best-protected buildings.
- Tweets from Afghan journalists inside Hotel Intercontinental.
- Tabloid headlines for Wimbledon news and Murray mania.
- In symbolic move tied to Afghan drawdown, Pentagon employees shift from combat fatigues to battle dress uniforms.
- History of America's official color palette, source of traffic-cone orange and Schwarzkopf's preferred tan.
- Zimbabwe's independence harder to distinguish as China's "Next Empire" grows in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Obama may be unable to state economy has truly recovered before 2012 election.
- France's Christine Lagarde becomes first woman to run the IMF.
- Report on two roles countercultural physicists of the 1970s played in the rise of quantum physics.
- He sat. He rapped. He handed police officers his demo tape. Man rapping at buildings shuts down Times Square.
- Argentina zoo allows tourists to ride and pet the predators.
- Australian boy out fishing knocked unconscious by whale tail whack.
- Brief profiles of people claiming to be world's most traveled person.
- Members-only pins, updated when the member reaches higher levels of country visitations. Benefits of joining the Travelers Century Club.
- Daily dose of painting: Still life, quick heart.
- Lovely photos from a camera mailed from Cape Cod to Honolulu.
- While I was working on him, Banville was everywhere. Confessions of a Ph.D. student whose subject worked nearby.
- Archive of avant-garde recordings from 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic LPs.