July 26, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- As businesses shun the jobless in help-wanteds, the unemployed outlook gets bleaker, and states consider legislation.
- With states hoping to save millions by changing primary dates, Republicans rethink where to pour resources.
- Commonplace in politics, pledges to uphold special interests handcuff decision making, foreshadow embarrassments.
- When overdubbing in Arabic, the right dialect makes all the difference: Lebanese for sitcoms, Syrian for drama.
- In China, stores choose to cut off public Wi-Fi rather than add expensive government monitoring software.
- After months of delays, Cuba to decide the fate of Alan Gross, accused of providing residents with a satellite phone.
- Robert Birnbaum discusses the Gross case with Cuban author Carlos Eire.
- Until the teddy bear, children's toys were hard and cold--collectors hunt for a bevy believed lost in 1903.
- Before the Civil War, Matthew Brady had found success; despite his family's admonitions, he wanted something greater.
- The War in Hipstamatic: Embedded photographers with iPhones capture embattled life in Afghanistan.
- Writer Garth Risk Hallberg on life sans web.
