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June 28, 2013: Afternoon
* 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
Sick and Famous
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.
June 28, 2013: Morning
* 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
June 27, 2013: Afternoon
* 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
June 27, 2013: Morning
* 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
Lots of Oil Fields Around Here
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.
June 26, 2013: Afternoon
* 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
Existential Pornography
For a hopeful magazine editor stuck in the wrong career, when Playgirl comes a-calling, it looks like the answer to her prayers—but not everything is as it seems. An excerpt from the new memoir “How to Be a Playgirl.”
June 26, 2013: Morning
* Advocates say Republicans across the U.S., ignoring more pressing issues, have launched “a new war on women.” * Due to last-minute chaos, Republicans unable to pass a bill that would have closed nearly every abortion clinic in Texas. * Data shows Southern whites display "more racial antagonism and ideological