October 1, 2011: Weekend
- Anwar al-Awlaki is the U.S.'s first due-process-free citizen assassination.
- Details of the two-year al-Awlaki manhunt, which also led to death of al Qaeda's magazine editor.
- Bahrain's vicious crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators requires U.S. to cease arms sales.
- India's PM is symbolic of a broken, corrupt system.
- Saudi women can vote, but still live in one of the worst places to be a woman.
- Preview of Supreme Court term: Prop 8, Arizona, GPS tracking.
- A season with immigrant farmers.
- Study finds approximately 92% of Billboard chart songs contain reproductive messages.
- Consumer technology regression exemplified by pianos, where no better piano will ever be built.
- The subjects’ brains responded to the sound of their phones as they would respond to...a girlfriend.
- Scientists work to eliminate the hunk of metal that's the basis of the kilogram measurement.
- MP's wife caught on CCTV stealing a kitten from the home of her husband's lover.