Headlines from July 23, 2009

New steamy sex tapes released of Berlusconi with a prostitute.
Op: Investigating the C.I.A. assassination program should include asking why it didn't work.
On average, master's degrees in education bear no relation to how well teachers teach.
Backyard chickens beaten out by urban beekeeping for new home-farming trend.
Science tattoo emporium.
E=mc{+2} is the supermodel of equations; TMN's Anthony Doerr on why you should care.
TMN's Andrew Womack on David Foster Wallace and growing up in a tennis-playing family.
Writer struggles to be social in a land of softball leagues; writer meditates on his neighbor in the Blue Hills of Virginia.
Q&A on legal questions arising from the Gates arrest do not shed pleasant light on Cambridge police.
If there's doubt about Arafat's death, it's because Abbas has never released a report on what killed "The Old Man."
In most cases, crowds behave sensibly, and police and governments should trust them.
Audio: Overview of the DSM, the (frequently controversial and revised) manual of mental illness.
Excerpts from R. Crumb's Genesis.
Mourning the loss of valuable public broadcasting, which used to educate rather than placate.
Possibly the strangest crime story you'll read today. Furries included.
Obama tries to explain health care reform to the people, relies on D.C. jargon.
Good Times dinner-conversation primer on health care reform.
Republicans' favorite consulting firm to cite in health care chats is owned by UnitedHealth Group.
Video of John Yoo, author of the Bush torture memos, getting punk'd.
Instapaper for the commute: Profile of Valerie Jarrett, advisor with the president's ear.
After days of riots over basic services in Johannesburg and Durban, Zuma government vows to crack down.
Eighty-one percent of Pakistanis see Islamic militants as a critical threat; 59 percent share many of Al Qaeda's attitudes toward the U.S.
Op: The further you get from the Northeast, the nicer people are.
Part two of Der Spiegel's Porsche saga.
Andy Murray plays local county match, goes against a journalist who saw him at Wimbledon.
Life of a living statue in London; analysis of Mexican druglord nicknames.
Op: Contemporary atheists needn't base their arguments in theology to be considered legitimate.
Cankle-busting is the latest rage, but it's "highly questionable" that diet or exercise can spot-reduce fat.
Twenty locations to eat ice cream in Paris.