August 18, 2011: Afternoon
- UN indicts Hezbollah for assassination of Lebanon's Hariri.
- Life in Ethiopia is not all famine.
- Recent statistics about American drinking: wine ties beer.
- According to studies, weed doesn't make you stupid, but may improve your imaginative powers.
- New interpretive system Veritas turns sentences blue when they're not true.
- With government paralyzed, business should lead job-creation efforts; perhaps it requires “contingent commitment facility.”
- Model of Prague Castle would be exceptionally hard to construct.
- Kakutani-watchers celebrate return of the critic's favorite "limn."
- Micro and macro questions to consider when attempting to judge whether a pizza is truly great.
- Pictures of naptime.
- Q&A on fright of the week: rabies from vampire bats.
- Stretching the idea that anything can be movie franchise fodder—e.g., Strawberry Shortcake: Return to the Jungle.