August 10, 2012: Afternoon
- Gore Vidal's Economist obit.
- Images of Olympic defeat.
- Explaining the 2012 Olympic oddities, including a probable reason for those blue tongues.
- Our latest Weekender: Falling for sports you never knew existed.
- The modern pentathlon: more Star Wars than Peloponnesian.
- Luis Rios has been rounding the Prospect Park loop for 35 years—the past 20 in the same sneakers.
- Despite publishing article about "STFU Parents" blog, NYT won't publish "STFU" in the interest of remaining respectable.
- A look at the bestselling books in New York, neighborhood by neighborhood.
- When fertility rates drop, better economies follow—but the wealthy lower their family sizes faster than the poor.
- The seven-string guitar, that’s the real guitar. Its voice sings. That, that is the Russian guitar.
- Why many young black men in the Bay Area are accused of being in gangs.
- The FBI has apparently decided Juggalos are a gang affiliation.
- The business of fake IDs is booming—Americans want to drink, Chinese want to use the web.