Headlines from July 30, 2011
- Fleeing famine, Somalia family deals with lion attack, rape, death—religion is problem, salvation.
- To be judged insane would exonerate [Breivik] from responsibility for his actions, as if madness and responsibility were mutually exclusive.
- The state of foreign policy debate among Republican presidential contenders reveals total disarray.
- Turkey’s entire military top brass quit over government investigation into alleged coup.
- Then, as now, two sides moved toward calamity over a relatively small issue. Debt crisis seen through game theory and the Cuban missile crisis
- Clapping, standing by someone clapping, or just standing, can now prompt lawful arrest in Belarus.
- Slow Science Academy releases manifesto asking for more time to think, consider potential use of findings.
- On border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez huge disparities widen, heady promise of globalization failing. #longreads
- Goldman Sachs is buying up Detroit warehouses to hoard a quarter of the world’s industrial metal aluminum.
- It’s difficult to prosecute sexual abuse by Buddhist monks with lax oversight and accountability.
- The world’s most expensive footballer is collateral for teetering Spanish banks.
- Agatha Christie: surfing pioneer in South Africa, Hawaii.