September 22, 2011: Morning
- In Mexico, gunmen block traffic with bodies of 35 victims as cartels continue battle for control.
- Residential alternative to prison helps women stay with children, learn responsibility and structure.
- Oman served as broker between U.S. and Iran in hiker release—with little oil, it needs friends.
- Shoot camera footage—not a gun—in an innovative FPS video game.
- Emblematic of land grab, 20,000 Ugandans forced from their homes for British carbon-credits investor.
- A new semester begins at Tripoli university.
- Brazil plans to award 75,000 scholarships for students to study abroad, bring home knowledge.
- Your second chance at lit theory: a briefer reading list.
- For Harrison...the natural world was something to be howled at, gloriously, in the night.
- R.E.M. break up.
- Matthew Perpetua's reviews of every track in the R.E.M. catalog through 2005—the rest soon.
- List of exonerated death row inmates