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Headlines for Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Afternoon Edition
New fatwa permits women in burqa-banning countries to wear only a headscarf.
Researchers find continuing education delays dementia by 11% per year.
See also: Eight notable commencement speeches and one written by 14 people.
From Apriums to Peacotums—which are the same thing—fruit breeders deliberate hybrid crop names.
The history of “state of the art,” and why the phrase is meaningless.
Pressure-detection technology lets paralyzed patients control wheelchairs by sniffing.
Remembering the cash-strapped 1948 London Olympics, where ahtletes had to bring their own towels.
I can chart my engagement with the streets of New York back to an evening soon after my arrival.
Reaction: Look up and you’ll see the water towers—they define our skyline.
Morning Edition
Economists fear deflation—and a Japan-like lost decade—may cripple U.S. growth.
Slowly, in some law firms, the billable-hour billing model is being replaced.
Vespa targets Asia’s hot scooter markets and redesigns models for local preferences.
Neural activity synchronizes between speaker and listener during storytelling.
Life of a copyeditor requires humor—if you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.
Instapaper for the commute: Gawande on medicine’s reluctance to let people die peacefully.
Audio: Malcolm Gladwell tackles charge he’s a “genius denier.”
“George Bush, Dark Prince of Love.” Collection of awful real novels. Photos from Socotra Island, “the most alien-looking place on Earth.”
TODAY’S FEATURE
What You Gave Me
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, TODD LEVIN and THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SEX help three readers with their love quandaries.TMN TALKS
Maya Goodwin & Jocelyn Greer
Maya Goodwin is an anthropology major, and Jocelyn Greer is an English major with a journalism track. Together, they are the Princeton students behind...OUR MAN IN BOSTON
Late Summer Hodgepodge
New books: Paul Muldoon and Nat Hentoff; Pamela Geller and Chalmers Johnson; Dago Gilb and Simon Van Booys; and James Baldwin. All present.TMN MERCH
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