* Details of Obama's jobs plan, and what happens next. * Continuing unemployment stagnation in the West is far from inevitable, but only if austerity ceases. * Revolutions devour their children. The spoils go to the resolute...who know what they are pursuing and how to achieve it. * Turkey offers to
* Because it's there: UK scientists hope to revive a 1970s satellite still in orbit. * Has 9/11 spurred a great work of art—or was DeLillo right that terrorists are the myth-makers of our age? * Neuroscientists discover that you probably weren't where you thought you
* Proxy war fought by U.S. backed warlords in Somalia, helped create militant Islamist threat. * Beyond refugee camps, a life of dignified exile avoids double-victimization. * Images of the wildfires that have devastated central Texas this week. * Comparing the acreage destroyed by this season's Texas wildfires: The damage
* The silent drought in Nairobi slums: Aid organizations' emergency indicators don't work in cities. * Forty years on, researchers test willpower of the "marshmallow experiment" participants. * How lawyer-turned-innovator Narcis Monturiol invented the submarine, then was promptly forgotten. * Dutch realize they need a mountain, plan
* UN warns cuts, austerity will lead to stagnation, that stimulus is essential to high employment. * Anticipating China's Iceland movement is tough—compared to Japan's economy, is could be soon and steep. * Swiss canton has too many jobs, too much growth, no middle class, dumb low tax
* Over a thousand homes in Texas destroyed by wildfires; 23 fires and counting. * The scandal around Chirac isn't about him skipping court for being sick; it's about French justice avoiding him for so long. * Teddy Wayne interprets Dick Cheney's post-9/11 dreams. * See
* August becomes first month with no U.S. military deaths in Iraq since 2003. * Interpol chief says the web has replaced Afghanistan as terrorists' main training ground. * Hatfields and McCoys feuded from the Civil War until 1890, and again in 1947; but 9/11 brought them together. * Remnick: This
* How the CIA became a killing machine, with massive escalation in use of drones in recent years. * Tripoli security chief endured extraordinary rendition by U.S., torture, has no hard feelings. * Memos suggest China tried to sell Gaddafi arms, may be excluded from reconstruction. * China isn't letting up
* Berlusconi calls Italy a "shitty" country that sickens him, and vows to leave. * Dutch game show pits failed asylum seekers in contest to show knowledge of Dutch culture. * Detailing those who gained from 9/11. * No guesses for when Gadhafi will show up at his vacation home, located
* Solutions to the space debris problem: magnetic nets, catcher's mitts, anything to stop it multiplying. * Since May three NHL players have been found dead—all enforcers who dropped gloves to punch and be punched. * Endangered species babies born in labs. * A chart of defunct nations is the key
