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Headlines from June 26, 2012

New web domains open another era of land grabs; ICANN earmarks $350 million to cover complaints.
A major drug arrest could have boosted Mexico’s incumbent party’s presidential candidate—if they’d nabbed the right guy.
New York vs. Los Angeles, from car culture to doorknobs.
Related: New York vs. San Francisco. #tmn
Eventually Malkmus moved back to Stockton, Calif., and was never heard from again. Catching up with Nastanovich.
UK university to offer Madchester course with guest appearance by Peter Hook. #music
Otto—Anne’s father—handed it to me and said, look it’s Anne’s book. He was crying. An interview with Anne Frank’s cousin.
Post-tennis Becker: Golf is boring, real estate is not. #sports
Nic Brown on the Americans’ chances at Wimbledon. #tennis
The heart is not like a shoulder. You can always feel it ticking away. Gordon Marino faces the anxiety of heart disease.
The accountant-attorney who’s eaten at more than 6,000 Chinese restaurants.
Idle summer vacations can result in the loss of up to three months’ progress made during the school year.
The men sweated a lot in those lofts, and I remember one worker who had a peculiar way of dripping. Arthur Miller recalls an un-airconditioned New York summer.
A comparative history of Lacoste and Fred Perry tennis shirts.
Vatican hires Fox correspondent to help its communications strategy.
Brain-like computer created by Google scientists finally learns to recognize cats.
The language is juicy and pungent, full of fire and rain, rivers, and dust, birth and death—lots of death. Pop culture’s devotion to T.S. Eliot.
Elizabeth Kolbert on the paradox of America’s overprivileged, underworked, spoiled children.
Seven thousand pieces comprise a dominoes version of van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” #video
Four million people later, it’s hard to remember how controversial in-vitro fertilization once was.
Related: Paul Ford, “The Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” #tmn
More images from inside Oak Ridge, Tenn., the secret town where the U.S. government developed its atomic bombs. #photos