Oh, the stuff of legend! Young Americans make good! Young Americans break down! And not-so-young Argentinians draw real human blood! It was a very good week in the world of unwatched tennis. Let us start with big goofy Sam Querrey, who made it to the semis on the
* First relief, then skepticism as Greece votes for the pro-austerity New Democracy party. * Sunday elections give Socialists comfortable power seat for reshaping France. * Taglines sought for new Karl Marx Mastercard. * Explainer on why until recently Berlin rents have been so cheap. * Adam Gopnik on Americans' Olympic fervor. * Interviews
* Interactive walkthrough to the impending Supreme Court decision on the 2010 Affordable Heath Care Act. * An open letter to the state of Pennsylvania. * How the hyphen disappeared from "Czecho-Slovakia." * Germany's North-South divide highlights cultural differences such as the preferred beer, sausage, and card game.
* Netanyahu would rather America do the bombing, and he has much more confidence in Romney's belligerence than in Obama's. * Representative censored for saying "vagina" during abortion discussion. * Oregon man hospitalized with the plague—on average 11 cases of the disease are reported in the
* Notes on the recent full-blown outbreak of UN Derangement Syndrome. * U.S. now running a spy network of small air bases around Africa—overseen by Special Operations forces, not the CIA. * Report on Spain's independent rock scene with sound clips and videos. * Voyager I probe, launched in
* How drones help al Qaeda. * U.S. troops in Afghanistan become attached to their robot companions, refuse replacement models. * America's role in the upcoming Afghan election: At least for now, there's support no matter who wins the race. * "There is a difference between a focus
Continuing our series of randomly calling people around the U.S. to find out what's going on in their towns, this time we focus on the Olympics—how do folks who come from the same communities as America's Olympians feel about their star athletes?
* Bombings across Iraq kill 84, injure nearly 300 in the deadliest day since U.S. troops withdrew. * Hatching new methods to recycle valuable aluminum cans—it's not as easy as you may think. * Forget 2012: Mankind will seal its ecological doom in 2025 if it doesn't
* It's time to acknowledge Syria's conflict as a civil war. * World peace levels from 2007 to 2012. * Tree density, as observed with Google Earth, makes for a unique indicator of income inequality. * Relevant to Bloomberg's proposed soda ban: How the working class traded healthful
* UN report says Syrian troops have tortured children and used them as human shields on tanks. * Fascinating quick appraisal of working conditions of children in 1934. * Pictures of Burma/Myanmar in transition. * The Lower East Side, then and now. * How to get into and out of an economic crisis, with
