11 June 2010: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Mandela to miss opening ceremony after his great-granddaughter dies returning home from a World Cup concert.
New oil-spill estimate says the Valdez disaster is flowing into the Gulf every 10 days.
You want the oil? You clean up the mess. Britons, frustrated by stock losses, dislike being demonized for BP's spill.
Op: Obama needs actual opposition, not two-faced nay-sayers and Palin-ites.
Pinker: Distraction isn't new; new media--and things like, uh, universities--will keep us smart.
After a car crash, woman has only 24-hour short-term memory, à la Memento.
Flotation-dynamics study predicts giraffes can swim, but they're very bad at it.
The French are Italians in a bad mood. Sarkozy and Bruni fight gossiping blogs and tweets.
A bit more highbrow: Twitter, The Criterion Collection, Vol II.
Now in TMN Talks: We play word association with Steve Almond, the author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life.
Celine Dion's new 500,000-gallon pool creates drought on island.
Kayaking Dallas's urban rivers.
The world may prefer "football," but America took the "soc" from "association."
Video: John Oliver tells the U.S. soccer team to go "soc" it.
Donovan says England is first-class--evidence for why this is probably a trap.
When we're enjoying sport, we're open, we're vulnerable, we're small children again. And that's how big capitalism likes us to be.
