July 17, 2012: Afternoon
- Former Syrian ambassador doesn't rule out the possibility of Assad using chemical weapons.
- Ethiopia sentences top journalist to 18 years in prison for doing his job.
- Indonesians are the world's most bullish consumers, beating Indians.
- Remarkable round-up of links regarding the London Olympics.
- Improv Everywhere's Mini-Golf Open.
- Tom Bissell on shooter games.
- Twelfth lawyer for Dwyane Wade's ex-wife quits case.
- In case you were wondering: Does she love you?
- FBI launches investigation into the discovery of needles in four sandwiches on separate flights from Amsterdam.
- Siemens experiments with eHighway, a hybrid freight train that runs on both diesel and electricity.
- It is not the absence of any shared concept of the good life undermines our social well-being. It is rather the failure to address widening inequality.
- Solar-powered urban lighting designed to appear like trees and plants.
- Do business schools incubate criminals? Yes.
- The Paris Review meets R. Crumb.