Headlines from August 4, 2009

"The North Koreans have a lot of nostalgia for the end of the Clinton administration." The former president is in Pyongyang to free journalists.
Suppose Obama really was born in Kenya, then what? Resignation, impeachment, or nothing.
Op: We'd save money on health care if we could learn how to die.
The "Cash for Clunkers" program chugs along; mileage-friendly cars roll off lots at a pre-recession clip.
Wait, but how does disposing of an old car to buy a new car help the environment? Um.
The recession has inspired Americans to cut back on luxuries--many use the savings to enhance their new domestic lifestyles.
Lunching at Nobu London with a marine biologist to determine the menu's sustainability.
Fresh on the environmental guilt-trip scene: the water footprint.
"A person is responsible for emissions of his descendants." The expanding footprint of the American baby.
Complete collapse, global governance, and other theories on the end of America.
As Infinite Summer reaches its midpoint, Amanda French offers guidance on how to host your own I.S. meetup.
"The idea is that you don't have to read an article. You can become an expert just by looking at it." Meet GOOD Magazine's infographic designers.
Also from GOOD: a summation of the fight so far between David Rees and Jamba Juice's copycat ad campaign.
Q&A about Clinton and North Korea; Iran questioning three Americans accused of straying.
Advertising has done so badly of late that "it doesn't have to come back all the way to have a strong recovery."
From 1956, F.R. Buckley's analysis of his toddlers' behavior to predict their political alliances.
Physicists grow impatient with Hadron Collider's electrical problems.
Related: Guide for when Higgs bosons become digestive problems.
Religious institutions lead the pack of for-profit colleges, and struggle with the implications.
Contemporary girls lack compelling superheroines.
The critique of radio invoked "sacred rhetoric," the first resort of old media when threatened by new. Newspapers-vs.-progress battle has been fought before.
History of America's iconic pictographs.
Photos of the bloody underbelly of Japan's whaling industry.
Twitterable phrases from 1891's "Anglo-American Telegraphic Code."
Real John Doe doesn't regret changing his name, but often has trouble with airport security.
Gladwell on To Kill a Mockingbird and the limitations of Jim Crow liberalism.