August 10, 2012: Morning
- The Economist drafts Plan B for Merkel in case she wants to reconsider holding the Euro zone together.
- Graphic history of money in American politics, from George Washington to Citizens United.
- U.S. quickly catching up to Africa's emergence as cash power, voting bloc, security frontier.
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is now the most popular entertainment for Guantanamo inmates, replacing Harry Potter.
- This American Life's David Rakoff dies from cancer at 47.
- Terrorism is political violence that acquires its greatest power when it unnerves a targeted population.
- Will of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch bans use of his music and image for advertising.
- Food trucks now deployed by Sizzler, Taco Bell, Applebee's, and The Gap.
- Sir Patrick Stewart stars as London's top Olympics ticket scalper.
- American runner Manteo Mitchell reveals he ran the last 200m of a Olympic relay with a broken leg.
- Pretty good tips from travel pros.
- Report on boys who wear dresses and a summer camp for gender-variant children and their families.
- Portraits of male friends from the Civil War through the 1920′s.
- Yoko Ono recreates book she made at 19 as an answer to her experiences in war-torn Japan.
- Film made of many balls.
- How we pay for college explained in two graphs—it's largely by federal grants.
- Errol Morris runs test on the effect of fonts on the truth.