Chinese artist Ai Weiei returns home "on bail," freed for "good attitude in confessing his crimes." Sexual violence remains widespread in U.S. prisons, though perpetrators are largely staff. North Carolina may compensate victims after its eugenics board sterilized nearly 7,600 from 1933-74. I
Former U.S. political advisor returns to post-American Baghdad as a tourist, watches tennis, rides jet-ski. As Wimbledon bemoans female players' ever-loudening grunts, peruse video of the worst offenders. Car door slams, ATM whirrs, and other fake sounds; even more auditory shams. In a reversal of
Bahrain sentences activists to life sentences in attempt to crush dissent. Obama's Afghanistan war wind-down speech will please neither stick-to-it generals nor flee-fast supporters. Sixty-three percent of Pakistanis disapprove of bin Laden's killing; more than half say it's "
A century ago food vendors were often confidence men, cutting their products with inedible substances. A study of the history of food adulteration reveals hucksters at every turn.
Less crack smoking, better number crunching, and other theories why U.S. crime has plummeted. Anthony Weiner, meet lawyer Patricia Boguslawski and urologist Richard Chopp. Mississippi Delta farmers begin tearing down their emergency, homemade levees. Former BP chief Hayward likely will be summoned to Texas to face a new lawsuit
Sanna Kannisto’s photographs go behind the scenes of the natural sciences. A test tube full of nectar enticing a bat to pose for the camera is as beautiful and instructive as any textbook image or documentary film.
First time in two months, Assad addresses Syria seeking "dialogue," and opposition groups convene. Assad's image pelted with shoes after speech. Polls show American voters still prejudiced against Mormon political candidates. Obama impersonator yanked offstage during GOP conference for racially insensitive material, or for mocking GOPers?
Taliban fighters who take Afghanistan's asylum offer require a security detail to survive in their new life. Health agencies find they can monitor a city's drug use by passively sampling its wastewater. KFC franchise to donate $1 to diabetes research for every "Mega Jug"
Nearly 200 of Obama's biggest backers obtained administration posts for themselves or their spouses. Putin spokesman zealously defends hiring former "Miss Moscow" finalist to join Putin's traveling photographers. Examples from Miss Moscow's photo portfolio. Design decisions made in 2006 by Twitter'
After a childhood in the country, awaking as a freshman in a college town, where the inhabitants are willing and strange.
