Headlines from June 29, 2011

Space station crew prepared for impact with a piece of space garbage--one of thousands in orbit from previous missions.
After 16 years of requiring large buildings to commission public art, Seoul is littered with eyesores.
Texas town lays off its local police force over budgetary woes, braces for crime spike.
Dr Pepper files suit against Dublin Dr Pepper for distributing beyond a six-county territory in Texas.
Peculiar borders, including the Hopi Nation within the Navajo Nation within Arizona within the U.S., who share differing views of time.
With victory seemingly in hand, the historical rewrite is in full swing. Wall Street won, and you lost.
Federal investigation finds Upper Big Branch, where 29 men died last year, faked safety records.
Questioning Supreme Court justices' "extrajudicial activity," off-term attendance at political fundraisers.
More judges are showing off writing chops, peppering decisions with pop culture, rhyme schemes.
"If you don't have that equipment, you basically fall off the radar of life itself." Times readers make the case for low-cost artificial limbs.
For the second consecutive Wimbledon, Federer falls in the quarterfinals.
"You can't get more French than this." Parisians hungry for heritage travel out of the city, back in time.
Remaining Pythons reunite to lend voices to upcoming Graham Chapman biopic.
Tau Day, controversial alternative to Pi Day, passed by largely unnoticed yesterday.
Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attack landmark Afghan hotel, among Kabul's best-protected buildings.
Tweets from Afghan journalists inside Hotel Intercontinental.
Tabloid headlines for Wimbledon news and Murray mania.
In symbolic move tied to Afghan drawdown, Pentagon employees shift from combat fatigues to battle dress uniforms.
History of America's official color palette, source of traffic-cone orange and Schwarzkopf's preferred tan.
Zimbabwe's independence harder to distinguish as China's "Next Empire" grows in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Obama may be unable to state economy has truly recovered before 2012 election.
France's Christine Lagarde becomes first woman to run the IMF.
Report on two roles countercultural physicists of the 1970s played in the rise of quantum physics.
He sat. He rapped. He handed police officers his demo tape. Man rapping at buildings shuts down Times Square.
Argentina zoo allows tourists to ride and pet the predators.
Australian boy out fishing knocked unconscious by whale tail whack.
Brief profiles of people claiming to be world's most traveled person.
Members-only pins, updated when the member reaches higher levels of country visitations. Benefits of joining the Travelers Century Club.
Daily dose of painting: Still life, quick heart.
Lovely photos from a camera mailed from Cape Cod to Honolulu.
While I was working on him, Banville was everywhere. Confessions of a Ph.D. student whose subject worked nearby.
Archive of avant-garde recordings from 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic LPs.