Headlines from May 11, 2012

Brazil passes law returning booze sales to national stadiums in anticipation of 2014 World Cup.
Argentina passes world’s most progressive transgender rights laws.
Trustees of tiny all-male Deep Springs College object to administration’s plan to admit women.
Prince Charles appears as Scottish weather forecaster.
Hollande may be more open to austerity, less able to bring a change of course, than France hopes.
Two-dozen cute pictures of Putin posing with animals.
Scientists seek ways to make regifting seem less boorish.
Interview with the photographer burned by CNN’s controversial “Life in Appalachia.”
Interactive quiz to match train services with their names.
I have said in a knowing, pompous tone, “That is so ‘Corrections.’” Books the Times magazine staff haven’t read.
Little known history of napkin-folding culture.
Jennifer Rubell’s “Nutcrackers”—18 life-size female mannequins retooled to open pecans. #photography
Latest exercise advice: Stand every 20 minutes, drink chocolate milk after tough workouts.
Jonathan Lethem, at length, on the Talking Heads’ “Memories Can’t Wait.”
Nick Drake: Ptarmigan tears, nettle spread, rice bread. Bands as sandwiches.
“Oh geez, this is Jeff’s turtle!”
How the week ends: Michele Bachmann is no longer Swiss.
Photos of the lost town of Kaixian before it was flooded by the Three Gorges Dam project.
Round-up of energy-related conflicts around the world.
Speech transcripts show Obama using the word “extraordinary” an extraordinary amount.
Hedge-funders now despise Obama over taxes and capital gains.
A philosophical book needs about four days to read. Life of a Kuwaiti censor.
Profiles of Londoners who pay rent to live in garden sheds and freezers.
Lesbian arrested in North Carolina marriage-license office for refusing to leave until she could marry.
Wacky peanut statues around Dothan, Ala., the “Peanut Capital of the World.”
Slideshow of contemporary architecture found in Georgia.
Once you use a fabric somewhere in a room, you’re not supposed to use it anywhere else in the house. Lessons learned from the most recent House Beautiful.
List of things a rich person needs to ski.
Profile of Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard, now partnering with WalMart to spread environmental lessons.
Depressed copywriter retools corporate advertisements.
Typos culled from the last three issues of Copyediting magazine.