Headlines from July 10, 2013

Egyptian photographer Ahmed Samir Assem films the gunman who ended his life. #video
Team Zimmerman vs. Team Trayvon. Is this really how we want the nation to follow this trial? Stop watching CNN.
Iceberg the size of Manhattan breaks from Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier.
Cross-sections of bullets reveal the intricacies of modern munitions. #photos
Nobody’s managed to adequately remove the swastika-shaped tree formation planted in a German forest in the 1930s.
Swedish rights group launches “Crip Is Hip” campaign using beer to advocate better treatment of the disabled.
An interactive map of global corruption.
Researchers posit that powerful people are the fullest expression of the self—and are the most corruptible.
In Broad Channel, Queens, residents lobby for aid to protect their increasingly flood-prone neighborhood.
Related: Back home after life in war zones, Nathan Deuel finds respite in Broad Channel. #tmn
Decades before the term was coined, a Manic Pixie Dream Girl gave me my first proper kiss.
He often doesn’t have casual conversations anymore. A homeless man and his smartphone.
Bill Cosby’s sweater tournament reaches the final four.
To meet new demand for distressed jeans, some Chinese factories are using a widely banned sandblasting method.
He was under incredible pressure to write new songs. It’s been 14 years since Mark Sandman died.
Rhye turns in an amazing performance of “The Fall” on Kimmel. #video
Japan’s Prime Minister Abe endorses Fukishima-grown rice as a part of his “not particularly exciting” campaign.
At least 106 of 166 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center now believed to be on hunger strike.
Mos Def’s decision to be filmed while being nasally force-fed is exactly what celebrity is made for. #opinions
Primer on Guantanamo’s policies and 166 inmates, 100 of whom are reportedly cleared for release.
Two House Democrats propose creating a national park on the surface of the moon.
Covers of Russian popular-science magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi from the height of the U.S.-Soviet space race.
The world has grown accustomed to drone strikes; a drone operators’ strike would be something new. Union aims to represent civilian drone operators.
Worst video game ever created—Desert Bus—inspires charitable fundraising.
Highway Loss Data Institute reports the Ford F-250 has replaced the Cadillac Escalade as the favorite target of thieves.
For those with New Yorker subscriptions: Lovely Nicholson Baker quest into liquid-crystal technology.
People who use New York’s bike-share program are cheating the system; those who complain help society sustain itself. #opinions
Oklahoma City surgery center posts guaranteed all-inclusive surgery prices online, creating bidding war.
Texas lawmakers resume debating contested abortion bill, which is expected to pass soon.
North Carolina Republicans pass similar abortion-clinic measure by attaching it to a bill banning Sharia Law.
Nearly one-third of French restaurants sell meals “prepared largely or entirely elsewhere.”