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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Playing Doctor
Oh, no! I'm the first patient these 23 medical students have ever examined.- How To Design a Lincoln Museum
Step 1: Ask Disney for advice. Step 2: Build a roller coaster? - Beware of Diet
What if counting calories makes you fatter in the long run? - A Rose Is Still a Rose
How not to be intimidated by your rose garden. - Why Vote When You Can Bet?
Slate's guide to all the political markets. - Today's Pictures
Happy Birthday, USA! - Today's Doonesbury
I've got my back. - Today's Cartoons
Cartoonists' take on education. - Less Money, More Problems
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. - Luke Ford 1, L.A. Times 0
Telemundo is all over this scandal.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
- The Right To Bare Tummies
A brief history of the bikini. - Getting Off Scoot Free
Bloggers on the Libby commutation. - Please Do Not Feed Bear
Hey, how come that hedge fund got bailed out and I didn't? - The Newspaper of the Future
If we're lucky, it will look something like the newspaper of the past. - The Quality of Mercy Is Strained
Bush commutes Libby's sentence, while his lawyers come down hard on everyone else. - Can Bartenders Tell if You're Underage?
Not if you're a girl. - Scooter Libby's Clemency Order
No jail time for the convicted perjuror. - Commutations vs. Pardons
What's the difference? 
How To End a Sentence
Slate stories on NPR's Day to Day.- Extremely Loud and Incredibly … Awesome?
The critical buzz on Transformers and Günter Grass. - Dog Bites Man
The past and future of competitive eating injuries, from death by cheese to the dreaded ruptured stomach. - Slim Pigging
How to eat junk food without getting fat. - Summer Reading
Should you read the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love? - Summer Books
What Slate is reading this summer. - Sitting Pretty
The best portable beach chair. - "I Have Been Given a Baseball ... "
A weekly poem, read by the author. - Prison Break
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Monday, July 2, 2007
- What's the Difference Between London and Baghdad?
Vigilant traffic wardens, trusted police officers, and women who complain. - Why Bush Was Right To Spare Libby
Disgrace, yes. Jail, no. - McCain Drain
Here's how his struggling campaign could recover. - Dribbling to America
How does the NBA help foreign rookies adjust to life in the United States? - Arresting Development
The latest chatter in cyberspace. - Long, Incoherent, and Kind of Fun
The accidental charm of Michael Bay's Transformers. - When Orson Welles Was a Transformer
Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one. - Cycling's Biggest Dopes
A reader's guide to the new Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis books. - My iPhone Doesn't Work, But I Love It Anyway
Inside the mind of an Apple obsessive. - Opium Madness
The New Yorker on the Taliban's foray into opium production. - The Battle Over Brown
How conservatives appropriated Brown v. Board of Education. - Marriage, Trademarked
How to understand—and answer—the claim that same-sex marriage demeans the institution. - Don't Mince Words
The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women. - Job Application for U.S. Senate
References available on request. - Bushism of the Day
The president's accidental wit and wisdom. - Günter Grass, Reconsidered
What does Peeling the Onion reveal? - So, You Want To Be a Star?
Leo Lerman's gossipy journals offer lessons on fame. - The Online Dating Site for Rejects
Are those Chemistry.com ads working? - Hazy Connections
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. - Health Costs Screw Business, Too
The victim Sicko won't acknowledge.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
- Michael Moore and the Beige Bomber
He's got the indictment of health care right, but not the fix. - Glasgow Inferno
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
- Sleuth at Work
The strange case of Nancy Drew's self-confidence. - Plots Thicken
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Friday, June 29, 2007
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