Headlines from September 11, 2012

It is mathematically impossible do all three of those things. Romney’s tax promises: risk-heavy and detail-free.
Comparing jobs lost and created since the Great Recession—mining, utilities, and hospitality have bounced back the most.
A photo gallery of former video store locations. #photos
Gallery: Closed-down malls and abandoned big-box retail stores. #tmn
White terrorism, driven by racial supremacy and xenophobia, should rank as the greatest threat to national security in America today. #opinions
The discovery of a handwritten note helped a grieving family close the door on Sept. 11.
Sept. 11, 1957: The day Colorado went radioactive. #history
That day, her son had received 31 electric shocks as punishment for misbehaving. #longreads
I was so conscious of how I sounded that I became someone else. A writer secretly records his life for three years.
A defense of the unfairly maligned weatherman.
Related: The top 10 best-named weathermen. #tmn #tv
After all this time, vitamin D could be the key to curing baldness.
Twenty-nine of Earth’s 100 most threatened species. #photos
On the unexpected success of the pet funeral business, complete with its thousand-dollar coffins and grave markers.
Andy Murray wins his first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open, and makes all the grown male journalists cry.
Bloomberg and Cuomo reach a deal on who will pay for the 9/11 Museum.
London tube map rendered in radio circuit board.
Graphic shows who hasn’t yet paid back their bailout money.
Romney can’t talk about Iraq for fear of the “back-to-Bush” argument.
Marc Jacobs calls latest show brutal—“just sex appeal and strength, with no romance and no emotion.”
The argument for preferring risks of a nuclear Iran over the gamble of a pre-emptive war. #opinion
Argument for doping in sports: Enhancement is becoming the norm.
Palestinians borrow chant from Syrians to call for their president and prime minister to step down.
West Bank protests escalate into violence.
I don’t think assault weapons are covered by the Second Amendment. Mexican activists plead for a change in U.S. gun policy.
Dogs have been used to humanize royal women for centuries—all the way up to the latest Corgi.
Luminous portraits of American girls. #photography #tmn
Billboards found on the Sunset Strip, 1974-5, include a poster for Chinatown.
FOUND’s Davy Rothbart and TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin chat about their recent books.
Philip Roth publishes a captivating letter to act as a Wikipedia page’s secondary source.
Tuesday poem: “Read These” by Mary Karr.