August 26, 2011: Afternoon
- Attractive Irene tracker from the Times.
- South Africa's police vow to stop high rate of cops being killed; population terrified of killer cops.
- Men torch casino in Mexico, killing 53; worst attack in five years of anti-gang policing.
- Recent history of MI6 and Gadhafi's relationship, conducted by Saif in fancy hotels.
- Forbes's list of world's most powerful women rewritten by women for women.
- McDonald's—"an execution wonder"—now reports 5% annual growth rate.
- Apple's new CEO: "I'm thinking printers."
- Handwritten letters excite social-media types; Twitter executive operates stationery press.
- Inspirational corporate posters culled from The Wire.
- Physics expedition into "the shadowy heart" of crumpled paper.
- Video explainer: Emerging economies are kicking the ass of developing ones.
- Plot generator for your next action/buddy flick.
- New memoir puts "welcome spin"—i.e., neurotic tics—into Nadal's role as Federer's "rough ravisher."
- Tales from trying to get a cartoon placed in the New Yorker.