* Commerce Department’s gross domestic product revisions say the Great Recession wasn't so bad. * Assessment of the state of the male contraceptive pill: for both scientific and social reasons, there's no bright future ahead. * Winners from climate change include brain-eating parasites that flourish in America&
* Zimbabwe's prime minister Tsvangirai calls election a "huge farce," with elaborate vote-rigging by Mugabe. * Reporters struggle to describe bustling neighborhood completely destroyed by Assad in Syria's third-largest city, Homs. * Portraits of possessionless, religious nomads in India and Nepal. * Occupy-style protests, underwritten
* New Snowden documents show NSA program "XKeyscore" collects nearly everything people do on the internet, with "real-time" interception. * Round-up of journalists' and politicians' reactions to the Manning verdict. * Dos and don'ts of escalator etiquette, where "leisure"-oriented commuters
* A fair election will find Mugabe pushed out of power; only Africa's other leaders can make that happen. * Assessment of what America would look like, based on internal documents and interviews with former aides, 200 days into Mitt Romney's first term. * Toyota donates efficiency in lieu
* There have been few openly gay ambassadors—and that's absolutely about to change. * For the past 10 weeks, oil has been leaking into Alberta—no one's saying how much and no one knows how to stop it. * "Medical marijuana advocates become unlikely opponents to pot
* Life after whistleblowing. * Our nation, divided in its Amazon reviews of Reza Aslan's Zealot: more than 100 five-star and one-star ratings. * See also: One-star Amazon reviews of the best modern novels. * Paris Chamber of Commerce launches "Do You Speak Touriste?" program to help
* The conviction of Manning, in other words, would also be a conviction of Assange. * The rape-pregnancy myth started as a mythical Nazi experiment. * To gather data in dangerous, hard-to-reach places—e.g., volcanoes—cheap, disposable drones are one answer. * As corporations snatch up new top-level domains,
* Armed thief enters French Riviera hotel, makes off with an estimated $50 million in jewelry. * The biggest jewelry heists in the last 10 years. * The real story about Snowden's revelations is that you can't trust an American cloud. * Every mistake by a major news organization was
* Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying test results following the Deepwater disaster. * Global warming and overfishing are driving some lobsters to cannibalism. * Scientists discover dwindling bee populations are not necessarily due to insecticides, but a less solvable problem: fungicides. * Study finds a full moon negatively affects sleep quality. * The most
* Significant gender gaps found globally in public opinion about America's use of drones. * Security for the Pope's visit to Brazil said to cost the country $52 million. * Remembering New York's only black millionaire in the mid-19th century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton, now overlooked by
