Headlines from June 30, 2011
- Though the party is divided on why to slam Obama for troop withdrawals, some Republicans are rediscovering their isolationist roots.
- Op: In light of recent Perry takedowns, accomplishments in office may not make a lick of difference.
- Does it mark them out as underdogs trying to overcome the liberal elite? Theorizing why the GOP continues to co-opt lefty rock songs.
- For breast cancer patients, Avastin's future is unclear--it may still be produced, insurers may ignore the FDA.
- Sand sculptors earn more than you'd probably guess from competitions and consulting gigs.
- Photos of what U.S. soldiers wrote on their helmets in Vietnam.
- Related: Our gallery of secret military badges.
- Disunion: How a former passenger ship became one of the Confederacy's most potent weapons, dismantling Union merchant trade.
- Paris as it exists, warts and all, is much more interesting than the Paris of Woody Allen's mind.
- From DIY to chrome to the Beatles' dropped "t," a field guide to band typography.
- Jarvis Cocker surprised, flattered anyone would want to publish a book of his lyrics.
- Summer camps become a captive lab for sociologists to study kids' behavior.
- Oreo-based cameo portraits; state mottoes, redesigned.
- Stanford scholar: To understand books, we need to stop reading them, and feed them to computers instead.
- University of Oxford drops the Oxford comma.
- New Mexico wildfires three miles from Los Alamos, where low-level nuke waste is stored above-ground.
- Egypt's government getting by, running the economy "hand to mouth," with no real mandate.
- Satellite imagery of Arab unrest.
- Videos: Medvedev's SUV rolls away; Putin can't start car; Obama's limo gets stuck.
- Humans' tendency to mimic other humans mimicked in movies like Pulp Fiction.
- Arguing for the innocence of study-abroad coed and alleged murderer Amanda Knox.
- Army bans wearing of "five-finger" running shoes.
- Science finds pruney fingers may serve purpose as rain treads.
- Woes and throes of seven-foot-tall ex-basketball players, bombarded by attention, unable to visit Walmart.
- Texas football and nachos go hand-in-hand; Nachos in Paris aren't exactly Texas-pure.
- In Consumer Reports' first fast-food rankings, In-N-Out wins for burgers, Chick-fil-A for chicken, Chipotle for Mexican.
- Any idiot can make a helicopter out of an old Nissan Sunny. Requirements to host Top Gear.
- Every Gypsy and Traveller caravan site in England mapped and listed.
- Second-by-second Klosterman dissection of Led Zeppelin performing "In the Evening."
- If there has been a testimonial to the Clemons-Springsteen bond by a black journalist, I have missed it.
- Springsteen's eulogy for Clarence Clemons.
- Videos: Rolling Stone's 10 best Springsteen songs.
- Q&A with Ayelet Waldman on her and Chabon's new TV show about Hitler-defeating magicians.