Headlines from June 30, 2011

Though the party is divided on why to slam Obama for troop withdrawals, some Republicans are rediscovering their isolationist roots.
Op: In light of recent Perry takedowns, accomplishments in office may not make a lick of difference.
Does it mark them out as underdogs trying to overcome the liberal elite? Theorizing why the GOP continues to co-opt lefty rock songs.
For breast cancer patients, Avastin's future is unclear--it may still be produced, insurers may ignore the FDA.
Sand sculptors earn more than you'd probably guess from competitions and consulting gigs.
Photos of what U.S. soldiers wrote on their helmets in Vietnam.
Related: Our gallery of secret military badges.
Disunion: How a former passenger ship became one of the Confederacy's most potent weapons, dismantling Union merchant trade.
Paris as it exists, warts and all, is much more interesting than the Paris of Woody Allen's mind.
From DIY to chrome to the Beatles' dropped "t," a field guide to band typography.
Jarvis Cocker surprised, flattered anyone would want to publish a book of his lyrics.
Summer camps become a captive lab for sociologists to study kids' behavior.
Oreo-based cameo portraits; state mottoes, redesigned.
Stanford scholar: To understand books, we need to stop reading them, and feed them to computers instead.
University of Oxford drops the Oxford comma.
New Mexico wildfires three miles from Los Alamos, where low-level nuke waste is stored above-ground.
Egypt's government getting by, running the economy "hand to mouth," with no real mandate.
Satellite imagery of Arab unrest.
Videos: Medvedev's SUV rolls away; Putin can't start car; Obama's limo gets stuck.
Humans' tendency to mimic other humans mimicked in movies like Pulp Fiction.
Arguing for the innocence of study-abroad coed and alleged murderer Amanda Knox.
Army bans wearing of "five-finger" running shoes.
Science finds pruney fingers may serve purpose as rain treads.
Woes and throes of seven-foot-tall ex-basketball players, bombarded by attention, unable to visit Walmart.
Texas football and nachos go hand-in-hand; Nachos in Paris aren't exactly Texas-pure.
In Consumer Reports' first fast-food rankings, In-N-Out wins for burgers, Chick-fil-A for chicken, Chipotle for Mexican.
Any idiot can make a helicopter out of an old Nissan Sunny. Requirements to host Top Gear.
Every Gypsy and Traveller caravan site in England mapped and listed.
Second-by-second Klosterman dissection of Led Zeppelin performing "In the Evening."
If there has been a testimonial to the Clemons-Springsteen bond by a black journalist, I have missed it.
Springsteen's eulogy for Clarence Clemons.
Videos: Rolling Stone's 10 best Springsteen songs.
Q&A with Ayelet Waldman on her and Chabon's new TV show about Hitler-defeating magicians.