* White House readies contingency plans as the Supremes review health care law. * Supreme Court to decide whether 14 is too young to be sentenced to life in prison. * Republican big-money outside groups vastly outperforming Democratic counterparts. * Police negotiate with suspected killer of seven people in southern France. * Portrait of
For some Americans, the French way of life is best. Other people simply prefer "freedom fries." A two-week journey across the U.S.—passing through a handful of towns named Paris—to find out what Americans really think about France today. (Part three of four.)
* Pirated Russian version of Iron Lady depicts Thatcher as Hitler admirer. * Reagan doodles from 1981 G7 summit included among Thatcher papers. * Military STD posters of yore. * The short and sweet life of a space shuttle rocket booster. * Islamic authority deems Lady Gaga's concert forbidden, a "cultural attack.
Some people require the Heimlich Maneuver a bit more than the rest of us. A report on the four times—so far—that the author has relied on the assistance of others.
* Recent war games suggest an Israeli strike on Iran would draw the U.S. into war and have dire regional consequences. * Ted Koppel on recent events. * Up to 20% of Mauritanians are enslaved; not until 2007 did it pass a law that criminalized owning another person. * English grows by 8,
* Giant rock trucked to LA to prove the city's not a cultural backwater. * After 59 years and 11 presidential administrations, athlete Jim Thorpe's family still battles over where to bury his body. * Navy leaders to administer breathalyzer tests to sailors with no probable cause. * Child'
Photographs of people at war by the co-director of “Restrepo,” from an upcoming show at New York’s Yossi Milo Gallery.
* Heavy fighting erupts in Damascus; UN estimates more than 8,000 have died in the uprising so far. * Al Jazeera airs 25-minute, undercover iPhone documentary of the Syrian revolt. * Near the end, Osama bin Laden was obsessed with rebranding. * Gloria Steinem doesn't need to be replaced—"
I have returned from the future, or rather a vision of it. Two Saturdays ago I visited Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. The former site of two of the largest World’s Fairs ever, the park was built to accommodate the 1939 fair, which was themed “Building the World
* Interactive graphic shows the scale of the universe, from the Kuiper belt to humans to a helium nucleus. * A jumprope that shifts space and time on every jump. * Timeline of recent moral panics, from "pharm parties" to "buttchugs." * Prank robo-calls tell voters in Canada that
