July 26, 2011: Morning
- New exit solution for Gadhafi may leave him residing in Libya.
- LA citizens keep mum about chopper swarms, fearing operators will hover above their houses for revenge.
- House finds new solution for debt-ceiling crisis: a "super" committee.
- Op: Many conservatives would prefer economic havoc to more 20th-century “welfare state” policies.
- Stunning color photographs of London during the blitz.
- Michael Kruse investigates case of a woman who disappeared inside her own home.
- Audio: On "glass delusions," like the princess who believed she swallowed a glass piano.
- Nice profile of the Michelin Guide, and why a tire company absorbs big costs to sell a "beautiful red book."
- Alan Bennett on libraries.
- Most people don't play Monopoly by its official rules, which produce a much faster game.
- Audio: This American Life's Planet Money team on patent trolling.
- Maps of 6,000 airports.
- Anatomy of the Marx Brothers scene where a very small stateroom becomes extremely crowded.
- There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, / and we don't now and never did lie to each other.
- Winners announced of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton contest, for worst first sentences.