June 26, 2012: Morning
- Idle summer vacations can result in the loss of up to three months' progress made during the school year.
- Arthur Miller recalls an un-airconditioned New York summer.
- A comparative history of Lacoste and Fred Perry tennis shirts.
- Vatican hires Fox correspondent to help its communications strategy.
- Brain-like computer created by Google scientists finally learns to recognize cats.
- Pop culture's devotion to T.S. Eliot.
- Elizabeth Kolbert on the paradox of America's overprivileged, underworked, spoiled children.
- Seven thousand pieces comprise a dominoes version of van Gogh's "Starry Night."
- Four million people later, it's hard to remember how controversial in-vitro fertilization once was.
- Related: Paul Ford, "The Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
- More images from inside Oak Ridge, Tenn., the secret town where the U.S. government developed its atomic bombs.