Headlines from October 14, 2011

Press secretary reveals Putin’s PR escapades are mostly his own doing.
Romney’s foreign policy ideas may not set the world on fire—good!—but he seems in denial about spending.
Arab world’s reliance on exploiting natural resources has prevented private industry from developing.
One in 10 people in the U.K. leave their Facebook password behind, post-mortem.
Cuttlefish display camouflage techniques, even when surrounded by stripes.
Help us figure this out: how close is the economy to your doorstep?
Bankers accuse NPR reporter of being a “demo dolly” for plying them with beer, asking how much they make.
Hemingway reports from Spain, 1938.
Nuns are a force for good; you don’t need to believe in God to believe in that.
Philip Larkin gives friend advice on getting published.
TMN brings back the TMN Map Quiz.
Man finds himself surfing great white shark instead of board off Oregon.
History of the Illinois-based Red Solo Cup, American party staple.
Photos of 50 international breakfasts.
Cleanup called off in Occupy Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park.
Of Iran-Mexico’s plot to invade the States: the main lesson is that Tehran’s man in Corpus Christi was gullible.
For six days and seven nights EU officials copulate wildly, with only Orangina to quench their thirst. Policy at the EU.
French prosecutors drop attempted-rape case against Strauss-Kahn.
DSK accuser finds victory in facts acknowledged as sexual assault, not “imaginary” as previously alleged.
Tilda Swinton talks about children, classmate Diana Spencer, and the time she tried to murder her brother.
Experts blame Thailand’s flooding disasters on authorities.
Now that we’ve got openly gay soliders, and thousands aren’t fleeing service, shouldn’t we hold the hate-mongers accountable? #opinions
Posters from the Paris protests, 1968.
Story of the night Hockney moved to LA tucked into final paragraphs of a knock on Pacific Standard Time.
Pacific Standard Time, the LA art-boosting marketing campaign, that is.
Recording-session profile of Mike Judge, who’s bringing back Beavis and Butt-head. #longreads
Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker becomes editor at Faber & Faber, “the house of Eliot.”
Eugenides gets cowboy billboard in Times Square to promote new novel—prior to Middlesex, publisher wouldn’t buy him a newspaper ad.
Motifs absorbed, lessons learned from watching every Almodóvar film.
Graphs show best performers in crunch time during last year’s men’s college basketball season.
Cook eats almost every part of a cow.