Headlines from July 7, 2008

Literary critic judges Obama based on his prose.
Op: If Obama wants change, he should quit talking about the start of the Iraq invasion and find an honorable way to end it.
Rising temperature of coffee deemed hoax perpetuated by anti-caffeine lobby.
Hot jocks and variations online, in this week's Digital Ramble.
Salon and Sarah Hepola begin a week in bacon, kicking it off with fashion statements.
Studies suggest that people establish a wine price comfort zone (and corresponding wine shelf) and stay there.
"If you can get the person across from you to laugh, they probably won't kill you." Palestinian-American comic with cerebral palsy takes her jokes to the Middle East, and to Hollywood.
It takes a tiger: In China, officials punished for faked big cat photo; it takes patience: Michael Vick's dogs are being rehabilitated.
Native Americans celebrate the resilience of their culture, war veterans, and hope on July 4th.
The pie that ate itself: experts say our world was created by Pangaea's "self-subduction."
Argument for the objective beauty of wind farms.
Constitutional rights aren't guaranteed online when corporate overseers dislike your words or pictures.
Profile of New York subway portrait-sketchers.
Video: A subway full of identical twins.
In Afghanistan, officials claim two U.S. airstrikes have killed dozens of civilians; coalition disputes reports, says only militants were present.
Following Iraqi's P.M. declaration of victory over terrorism, a string of attacks kills 16, injures 15.
Closing the door on the Hussein regime, U.A.E. restores diplomatic relations with Iraq, cancels debt.
With the Olympics now a month out, China curtails its polluters--the economic effect is felt abroad.
Seeking to maintain the GOP platform, conservative activists prepare to battle McCain over global warming, stem cells, immigration.
New study finds voter turnout is affected by social activity genes.
Video: David Lynch on the origin of ideas.
There is something vulgar, almost absurd, in the notion of a Mrs. Plato or a Mme. Descartes, or of Wittgenstein on a honeymoon. On the abundance of bachelor geniuses.
Nadal bests Federer in epic Wimbledon final; watch video highlights here.
Muscle-mapping T-shirts could be used to improve your tennis swing.
Slim Goodbody, he of the organ-painted bodysuit, still educating, still 155 pounds.
Drug offers the longevity benefits of calorie restriction--without restricting calories.
Video: The Showbiz Pizza Band performs Usher's "Love in This Club."