June 8, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Dutch soccer players at Euro 2012 return from Auschwitz visit to be taunted with racist chants.
- "Family, tradition, religion, brass bands, and social solidarity"—all that's holding together communities in Spain.
- Travel guides' tips for visitors to the U.S.
- Life expectancy of New Yorkers (except those in the Bronx) now beating the rest of the country.
- Two levels below Times Square lies the New York Times morgue with 4,000 cabinet drawers, 5-6 million photographs.
- Pictures of space shuttles sailing to their new homes.
- Introducing the TMN Weekender, a selection of articles from our archive you can read here or download. This week's topic: science fiction.
- Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons talk about LeBron, athletic freaks, and hockey talent.
- Forgotten by most of the world, the fax machine remains important in Japan.
- Ruined or not, Blackberry has left us with the most distinctive social tic since cigarettes.
- Turning cremated remains into an LP begins at $4,600 for 30 records, each containing some ash.
- Among factors killing porn: viewers think not paying for it is the more moral thing to do.
- Husbands embedded in traditional and neo-traditional marriages... exhibit attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that undermine the role of women in the workplace.
- Fareed Zakaria delivers identical graduation speeches at Duke and Harvard.
- Using Google for legal research changes the way the Supreme Court works, and not in a good way.
