Headlines from June 6, 2014

On the 60th anniversary of D-Day, photographs of sites then and now. #photography
German exports rise, its industrial output increases, and its growth forecast gets a boost.
Many laundry-solving tech startups are, like many other tech startups, competitive, self-deluding, and douchey.
Inside the world of New York City’s impoverished and understudied can collectors.
Last of WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers—men who created a code from their language to stump the Japanese—is dead.
FOX News hires man who created an anti-Hillary Clinton group titled C.U.N.T.
“LOL” turns 25.
See also: Adam Gopnik realizes “LOL” doesn’t mean “lots of love.”
Copy of Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de lame in Harvard’s library found to be bound with human skin.
Actor playing new version of Rocky on Broadway needs “all the help I can get” to maintain weight and shape.
There are self-hating black men who date white women for contrived and pathetic reasons and I hate them.
Cinema-recreation group to construct new versions of the 1955 and 1985 sets from Back to the Future.
The Journal explains how Coach Klinsmann overhauled US men’s soccer’s style of play, without Landon Donovan.
See also: Stop the world; it’s the World Cup.
Analysis finds the World Cup endlessly profitable for FIFA, but too costly for its host country.
In India, moving from a locality where everybody defecates in the open to a locality where no one does makes all the difference for child mortality.
The future of highway cooking in the American South is Indian pickles.
Two-bedroom house built from plastic bottles is bulletproof, fireproof, and can withstand earthquakes.
Unrelated: Ode to alcoholic ciders.