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Most E-mailed news on 26 June 2009 |
Op-Ed Columnist: The Love Party
Mark Sanford is the latest G.O.P. hopeful to do a swan dive off the adultery cliff. Perhaps the Republican Party has been too strict about the no-girlfriends-while-running-for-president rule.
Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
Archaeologists said a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes discovered last fall represent the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Prescription From Obama?s Own Doctor
President Obama should tune out the A.M.A.?s position on the public insurance option as part of health reform and reach out instead to somebody he?s often trusted for medical advice.
Well: How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains
A recipe for indulging: salt, sugar and fat, mixed many ways. But we can fight it.
Practical Traveler: The Soaring Cost of Car Rentals
While the global recession has sent prices plummeting on airfares, hotels and cruises, it is having the opposite effect on rental cars.
Sports of The Times: U.S. Victory Was a Miracle on Grass
The stunning defeat of Spain is probably the greatest victory ever by the U.S. soccer team.
Death in Birth: Fragile Tanzanian Orphans Get Help After Mothers Die
An innovative program in Africa protects motherless infants through their risky early years.
Personal Best: That Little Voice Inside Your Twinge
Everyone tells you to listen to your body, but what are you supposed to listen to? Turns out it?s not so obvious.
Pastor Urges His Flock to Bring Guns to Church
The event in Louisville, Ky., is sign that American gun culture is thriving despite, or perhaps because of, President Obama.
Mysteries Remain After Governor Admits an Affair
In a rambling news conference, Mark Sanford apologized for having an affair, dampening his prospects for a national political career.
Supreme Court Says Child?s Rights Violated by Strip Search
The justices ruled, 8 to 1, that Arizona school officials had insufficient reason to search for prescription drugs in the 13-year-old girl?s undergarments.
Op-Ed Contributors: The Only Public Health Plan We Need
For a public health plan to raise the quality of health care, it should use the three most essential market forces ? choice, competition and incentives.
The Pour: A Beer, Please, and a (Good) Menu
DBGB Kitchen and Bar prides itself on its beer list and its food.Great beer abounds today in New York. But while aficionados yearn to have beer taken as seriously as wine, too often beer is presented in a context that diminishes the respect it deserves.
State of the Art: Decoding Battery Life for Laptops
Why doesn?t someone invent a standard for worst-case/best-case duration? Actually, they have. It?s called MobileMark, but there are a few problems.
Refreshing by Definition
A guide to summer bartending, when the only frost is on the glass.
Magazine Preview: G.M., Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class
The Powell family left the South in the 1960s, seeking better opportunities up North in the auto industry. Now the life they built is in danger of slipping away.
Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears
AltaRock Energy will drill near San Francisco using a method that has caused earthquakes elsewhere.
?West Side Story? Amid the Laundry
On a recent evening, Elizabeth Soychak performed jazz standards from Patty Heffley?s West 20th Street fire escape, just yards away from the High Line park, which Ms. Heffley has turned into the site of her ad-hoc Renegade Cabaret. For three decades, Patty Heffley used her fourth-floor fire escape as a clothesline. Since the opening of the High Line, it doubles as a stage for live performances.
Do-It-Yourself Garden, With Moat
Wijlre Castle is a showcase for both its gardens and its owners? art collection. A sculpture by Ad Dekkers provides a framed view of the castle.The garden of Wijlre castle, a 17th-century castle near Maastricht in the Netherlands, is considered one of the ?top eight? gardens in Europe.
Chikar Journal: Saving a Kashmiri Village After Remaking His Life
An American who arrived as a volunteer rescue worker after the 2005 earthquake that killed 80,000 Pakistanis started a hospital that treats 100,000 annually.
Target-Date Mutual Funds May Miss Their Mark
Once promoted as a safe way for unsophisticated investors to glide to a safe landing in retirement, target-date mutual funds are being criticized for heavy losses.
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