April 30, 2012: Afternoon
- Dozens wounded after suicide attacks in northwestern Syria.
- One World Trade Center to become New York's tallest building at some point soon.
- France likely to replace Sarkozy with a milky citizen king.
- Report from the rust belt of France.
- In India, solar energy is well on its way to competing with traditional fuel sources.
- Cell phones may eliminate the need to carry cash and credit cards—who needs a wallet when we have the internet?
- Brief history of the Mason jar.
- Facts about the nude Burt Reynolds Cosmo centerfold.
- Long profile of Osama bin Laden as an overrated villain, "mode-locked to success by a series of random events."
- According to science, Florence Colgate is the most beautiful woman in England.
- Tribute to the 1950s, a high point in American culture killed by highbrows.
- The New Yorker almost got rid of its umlaut, but the style editor died before he could send out the memo.
- How to make a very small knife.