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Boston Marathon waives qualifying factors for those with deep pockets for charity.
France dispatches smiling officials to mollify China post-Olympic parade disaster.
With more arms on the way to Zimbabwe, notes on news about China’s growing role in Africa.
Australia is now bigger; Australia doesn’t tolerate handheld laser pointers.
Op: Congratulations, journalists, on your cooler-than-you attitudes about comic conventions.
Video: Bill Clinton’s message to Pennsylvania voters.
A handy chart to keep up with your favorite politican’s history of drug use.
The show has resurrected the potential for scripted dramas to be effective social satire. How Gossip Girl is changing television, for everyone, forever.
Hello Kitty will be “modeling” the entire Dior collection in next month’s issue of Japanese Vogue.
Because, Men’s Vogue, why not: skulls projected on trees.
Video: Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett.
F.D.A. finds link between contaminated blood thinner from China and 81 deaths in the U.S.
Clinton’s campaign is in heavy debt, to the tune of $10 million—does she really need that $5 coffee?
Audio: Life as a six-foot-three woman.
The world’s upcoming food crises, in list form.
Best and worst: pop culture high schools; Hollywood endings.
Life imitates The Good Life: U.S. suburbanites are turning their yards into sustenance.
Video: Amy Sedaris cooks with bong water, Martha Stewart.
The “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy,” out of print since the ’60s, will find new life online.
Priest attached to party balloons floats away, still missing off the coast of Brazil.