August 27, 2011: Weekend
- Latest updates on Hurricane Irene.
- Extraordinary chronicle of an "ordinary" day in Mexico's drug wars—cause of 43,000 homicides since 2006.
- Former Mexican President Fox suggests truce, amnesty, legalization.
- If one of my employees started smoking crack I'd confiscate his gun and kick him out of the gang.
- What would happen in the minutes following a "Full Rip Nine" earthquake off the West Coast.
- Japan's most popular television host retires after admitting ties to quasi-legal yakuza.
- Reverting to gold standard wouldn't enhance fiscal discipline—it would give government more power.
- Russian prisons offer whisky, toga parties, Italian vacations—if you've got the money.
- Physicists still struggling to understand rigidity and complexity of a crumpled paper ball.
- Billy Corgan plans professional wrestling organization, picks public fight with transgender activist.
- Last horse fishermen of Belgium trawl for shrimp on horseback.