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.