July 6, 2012: Morning
- Clinton says China and Russia must "pay a price" for blocking UN sanctions that could help topple Assad.
- WSJ: In a stroke, Romney has contradicted Republicans across the country.
- Romney raised $100m in June.
- Global study finds Americans most likely to be anxious, followed by Colombians and New Zealanders.
- Q&A on Michele Obama's family history—from slavery to the White House in five generations.
- Def Leppard re-records its catalog to make money apart from the record company.
- Guitarist plays through rock's history of riffs in one take.
- Publisher to print Sound and Fury as Faulkner wanted: in colored inks.
- Not to be outdone, Hemingway's Farewell to Arms being reprinted with 47 different endings.
- Smartphones may finally make carpooling feasible on a big scale.
- Bay Area "hacker hostels" offer cheap beds for Silicon Valley's academics and dreamers.
- Good Saturday-morning read on the nature of subjective timing.
- Robert Krulwich praises the vulture.
- London "toshers" had the worst job ever: sieving sewage for valuables while dodging Queen Rats.