* For schools that choose to arm their employees, insurance carriers are raising premiums or refusing to provide coverage. * From 2011 to four days ago, a timeline of Egypt's transition from Mubarak to Morsi. * There is a war on Wikipedia over naming Egypt's "coup," since
* France, too, has a PRISM that spies on all its citizens and stores their online data. * For Fred Perry, until yesterday the last Brit to win Wimbledon, it was a very different reception. * For years he was relegated to the fourth man: How Andy Murray became great. * Now it'
Foliage bursting into living rooms. Houses floating in trees. Dynamic paintings of how natural and built spaces invade one another.
* Economist offers one-page solution to climate change: Tax fossil fuels in proportion to the amount of carbon they release. * Physics inquiry into whether or not Superman could punch someone into space. * PayPal determined to "help make universal space payments a reality." * Amazon reviews pay tribute to the
Colds and flus happen—but as pop stars, stage actors, and athletes know all too well, that’s rarely enough of a reason to call in sick. How they cope when the show must go on.
* Senate approves contentious bipartisan effort to overhaul immigration laws, but the Republican-controlled House calls it bunk. * See also: Frontline documentary, Rape in the Fields, about rapes of immigrant women. * In case you were wondering: 210 reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire. * Biomechanical basis discovered for why humans
* New York prosecutor, after lengthy re-investigation, says capturing the Friedmans was the right thing to do. * Praise for attorney and activist Mary Bonauto, mastermind of the legal strategy that eventually led to DOMA’s collapse. * Michelle Bachmann responds to DOMA in manner suggesting she endorses marriage between one man
* Ex-Texas warden reflects after 140 executions. * Redskins receiver Donté Stallworth takes to Twitter to defend SCOTUS rulings against DOMA and Prop 8. * The reason you keep seeing more self-checkout lines is because that's how you're going to be buying things at stores now. * The
A special Fourth of July edition of our series where an editor randomly calls people in small towns around America to see what’s happening.
* The war in Afghanistan is now mostly concerned with hostility between India and Pakistan. * India performs 37% of the world's female sterilizations; patients are paid $10 and misinformed of risk. * Marvel combines chick-lit with comics and yields The She-Hulk Diaries, a diary-format tale of a
