13 July 2007: Afternoon

  • A ruined Zimbabwean economy has cost men their affairs--and caused the only significant drop in HIV in southern Africa.
  • Details of the current moral and political crackdown in Iran, the most widespread since the 1979 revolution.
  • Hamas struggling to contain radical Islamist groups in Gaza.
  • Question of the day: My daughter collects stuffed bears. Will she become a slut?
  • Since federal approval last year, sales of Plan B have doubled.
  • Today's long read: The last century belonged to physics, but biology will become our new subject.
  • Bite it, Darwin: The story of a master prosthetic eye designer.
  • Examples of star architects designing condominiums.
  • British barristers allowed to lose the wigs, Dutch women forced to lose the burqas.
  • In today's feature, Michael Y. Park takes a group of journalists to exciting [exotic locale], where they encounter the terrible [type of Jazz] [type of reptile].
  • The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place. Thirty-three well-known things you never knew had names.
  • Op: Punctuation is no place for zero tolerance. (Money, though, can be tossed in the toilet.)
  • Harry Potter fever continues with magicians' school in India.
  • In Bangladesh, students break tradition to prevent a 13-year-old classmate's arranged marriage.
  • Cardboard soaked in industrial chemicals does not a pork replacement make
  • Video variations on the Dance Dance Revolution formula.
  • $800 to $900 million are lost each Friday the 13th as a result of people avoiding travel, wedding plans, moving, and so on.