July 21, 2011: Morning
- Famine declared in southern Somalia, where child malnutrition rate can soar to 55%.
- Former Chilean President Allende's corpse confirms official story: suicide, not murder.
- Surprise snowstorm leaves Chile blanketed under "white earthquake."
- Egypt's oldest political prisoner speaks.
- Who and where are America's composers.
- Op: When the CIA vaccinates for its own ends, it confirms conspiracy theories and hurts valid efforts.
- Comparing old and new cases finds America now capable of imagining murderous women.
- Not yet Jarndyce and Jarndyce—not yet—Google Books settlement remains unsettled.
- Google's in-house philosopher argues for similar appeal of products and humanities Ph.D.'s.
- Linguists guess the future of "literally's" misuse and transformation.
- Videos: Where art thou, 2011 summer jam?
- Op: Michael Winterbottom's delightful The Trip is "excellent on the vagaries of belatedness."
- Video: "Imagine Ray Winston has coughed it up."
- Woman at 61 to swim Cuba to Key West guarded by men in kayaks bearing rods to zap sharks.
- Overreaching on Rebekah Brooks's hair.
- Collection of suspicious van spottings.
- Inside a casino-hustling couple's flood-tunnel home beneath Caesar's Palace.