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- Remember when you’d buy a used car because it was a cheap car? Even if it needed a little fixing up? Late Tuesday, the Army announced it is spending $306 million more “to convert Operation Desert Storm (ODS) vehicles into the ODS situational awareness configuration.” Huh? Didn’t Desert Storm end more than 20...
- Suno - Sustainable Style
- Reading While Eating for August 15: Games, Old and New
- Book-Learning
- Would You Buy a Car Without Giving It a Test Drive?
- Scrabble Player Gets Ousted From National Championships for Cheating
- Google+ Hangout: Are You Too Busy To Get Anything Done?
- -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, telling reporters Tuesday that despite the presidential campaign, the drought and mass killings of innocents, it's important to remember the U.S. remains at war, "and that young men and women are dying in order to try to protect this country."
- ‘Slow Parenting’: Why a Mom Is ‘Fed Up with Frenzy’
- Europe’s Good News: Economic Decline Is Bad, but Could Be Worse
- Tuesday’s Political Ledes
- Listen: 13 Best Indie Songs of Summer
- Is the Stock Market Really Dying?
- 7 Things You Didn’t Know about the Appalachian Trail
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Reality Television
- ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Chrome Extension Lets You Check Gmail like It’s 1998
- What’s the Best Place in the World to Start a Company?
- Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care
- 9 Products Enjoying a Curious Surge in Sales
- How a Squirt of Oxytocin Could Ease Marital Spats and Boost Social Sensitivity
- 7-inch Tablet Wars: How Low Can Prices Go?
- Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including the West Nile Virus Outbreak
- MTV Ditches ‘Choose or Lose’ for New Fantasy Election Game
- Rocky Road from Air Force to Ambassador
- The Next Ten Days
- Hiring in the Digital Age
- Who Is the Better Communicator: Romney or Obama?
- The Morning After: Unfriendly Fire
- Is Paul Ryan’s Budget ‘Un-Christian’?
- Aggressive
- 5 Smart Strategies to Eliminate Your Credit Card Debt
- Today’s Slow-Motion U.S. Military Coup
- Olympic Winners Savor the Moment
- Military Photos: A Week Inside the Armed Forces, Aug. 7-13
- High Schooler Goes to Yahoo! Answers for Book Summary, Gets Response from Author Instead
- ‘F-Bomb,’ ‘Sexting’ and ‘Mash-Up’ Added to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green: A Fairy Tale for the Infertile
- How Palestinian Bloggers Cover Protests in Their Own Villages
- Four Great Baby Apps for iPhone (That Saved This New Parent’s Life)
- Double Robotics Lets You Turn Your iPad into a Telepresence Robot
- Life’s a Breach: Jet Skier Evades JFK Airport’s Security System
- The PTSD Merry-Go-Round Continues to Spin
- WATCH: Make a 3-D Sculpture of Your Unborn Fetus
- More on the Romney Campaign and Medicare
- How Palestinian Bloggers Cover Protests in Their Own Villages
- Mountain Dew’s ‘Dub the Dew’ Online Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
- Change in the Gobi: Mongolia’s Economic Boom
- WATCH: Yo Yo Tricks in Space Are Out of This World
- Must-Reads from Around the World, August 14, 2012
- The Big Theme
- Toys “R” Us Scam: Mother and Son Steal $2 Million in Toys
- Take Hate off the Plate
- WATCH: Gotye Releases Remix of ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ YouTube Covers
- Navy Skippers: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
- Today’s Movie Trailer: Great Expectations
- South Koreans Launch 220-Km Swim to Islands Disputed with Japan
- Groupon Plunges 20% on Weak Deal Growth
- Mutant Butterflies Found Near Fukushima
- 5 Things the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Countercoup’ Tells Us About Egypt
- Senior Discounts That Really Aren’t
- Reading While Eating for August 14: Guessing Game
- Nicolas Cage, Harrison Ford in The Expendables 3?
- Q&A: Sochi’s Olympics Chief on the 2014 Winter Games
- The New Klout: A Warmer, Fuzzier Bottom Line on Your Online Reputation
- Which Expendables 2 Star Is Most Expendable?
- Should You Drink If You’re Training for a Race?
- New Testing Strategy Could Help Diagnose Heart Attacks in an Hour
- Flying First Class, 2.0
- Crocs Founder Allegedly Goes off on Crazy Rant after DUI Arrest
- Oh, the Substance!
- The Big-Box Electronics Retailer That’s Actually (No Joke) Growing
- Dust: An Elysian Tail Is from a Future That Never Happened
- Drunk Man Falls Asleep on Airport Baggage Belt
- Monday’s Political Ledes
- Hollywood Mystery, Solved: 29 Movie Head-Scratchers Explained
- Return of The Architect
- Woman Accused of Stabbing Fiancé to Death on Their Wedding Day
- Is Your Car Being Tracked by a License-Plate Scanner?
- Snoring at Night May Affect Kids’ Daytime Behavior
- Boris Johnson: The London Mayor is the Biggest Winner of the Olympics
- Breaking Bad Watch: Train in Vain
- The Bomber Exchange Program
- Pop Chart
- Why Do Israeli Media Keep Predicting War with Iran?
- Flavor Blast
- Merkel's Mettle
- Ouya Game Console: What We Know (and Don’t Know) So Far
- Romney and Ryan – And Two Days of …
- Even in This Uncertain Economy, Pets Are Worth the Cost
- -- Hong Kong magistrate Reuden Lai, ruling in favor of the eviction of the 'Occupy' protesters camped outside the city's HSBC headquarters.
- A Congressional Insider on Why the U.S. Political System Is Broke
- Paul Ryan: An Inspired Choice That Says “We Can Fix This”
- Ryan’s Hope: Don’t Cut Military Spending So Deeply
- Must-Reads from Around the World, August 13, 2012
- The Ultra-Holy City
- For Sale: Asking $2.5 Billion
- SCRIPT: Romney for President Ad, “Long History”
- Cultural Taste: Edinburgh's Festival Fare
- Happy International Left-Handers Day! Celebrate Your Right to Be Left
- Hot Off the Runway
- 12 Things You Should Always Haggle Over
- World
- Briefing
- Between the Lines By Mark Halperin
- Technology in the 1990s, as Captured in Obsolete Computer Store Signs
- How Britain Won the Olympics Games and Lost the Plot
- Outsourcing Can Be for Small Businesses Too
- Central America’s Gang Wars: A Truce Leads to an Unusual Peace
- The Battle for Jerusalem
- Doctor Shortage?
- Reading While Eating for August 13: Olympic Aftermath
- The Social Media Tech IPO Boom: An Insider’s Game?
- In-Flight Bikini Show? Vietnamese Airline Gets Fined for Putting Girls on Display
- Could It Be? Some Actual Good News for Airline Passengers
- As Rangoon Races Forward, a Push to Preserve Its Architectural Past
- Following the Money
- Shark Week Turns 25: Don’t Go in the Water, Again
- Current iPhones Discounted as New Version Rumored for Next Month
- The President’s Welfare
- Stop Complaining About How Long It’s Taking to Get Your VA Benefits
- Paul Ryan’s Killer Workout: Is P90X for You?
- The Future of Personal Computing: Cloud-Connected Screens Everywhere
- Two Men, Two Weak Spots
- Remaking Jamaica
- Female Generals: The Pentagon’s First Pair of Four-Star Women
- Five Questions With Loomstate CEO Scott Mackinlay Hahn - Style & Design 2012
- India Continues to Grapple with Fallout from Assam Violence
- Exclusive First Listen: New Flobots Single “Sides”
- No Distance
- Does Nike’s ‘Greatness’ Ad Exploit Fat People?
- Inbox
- Chick-fil-Gay
- The Battle for Jerusalem
- A Rich Man's Game
- Pure Power Politics
- What’s Next for NASA? 10 Wild Newly Funded Projects
- Writing on the Wall
- Twin Earthquakes Shake Iran, Killing More Than 300
- Gore Vidal
- Inbox
- To Ease or Not to Ease
- Sex, Drugs and Recovery
- Afghan Princelings: Are the Children of the Mujahedin Ready to Rule?
- If You Build It
- Somalia's Chance: Can a U.S.-Backed African Force Bring Peace?
- 10 Questions for Jeff Kinney
- -- the number of people expected to leave Britain on Monday, following the close of the 2012 Olympic Games; Heathrow Airport braced for one of its busiest days ever.
- The Death of the Original Cosmo Girl: Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012)
- 10 Questions for Misty May-Treanor
- Create Raving Fans for Your Idea
- 10 Questions for Caitlin Moran
- Two Scoops of Ube
- App.net Made Its Goal. But Can It Make It?
- The John Lewis Economy: Why Is Downing Street Looking to Britain's Most Beloved Department Store?
- Sad but True? Shopping Promoted as a Way to ‘Fill the Void’
- Why the Ryan Pick Won’t Bring Clarity to the Budget Debate
- Betting Against a Drone Arms Race
- Why Are Some Undocumenteds Nervous About Obama’s Immigration Reform?
- Rock Formation Bigger Than Connecticut Found Floating in Pacific
- Last Launch: Dan Winters and the Shuttle Program
- Can Laws Against Junk Food in Schools Rein In Child Obesity?
- Online Defeats TV!
- WATCH: Perseid Meteor Shower Lights Up Weekend Skies
- SCRIPT: Restore Our Future Ad, “Another Month”
- Bourne Beats Batman, Ferrell Outpolls Streep
- Tiny, Totally Unrelated Canadian Chain Chick-Felay’s Takes Hit in Chick-fil-A Controversy
- The Sunday Shows
- Has Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Staged a Coup Against the Military?
- Hail Paul
- After a Brief Hiatus, the ‘Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan’ Meme Is Back
- The London Olympics Come to a Show-Stopping Close
- Britain’s Party: The London Games Rock On at the Closing Ceremony
- Citizen Bloomberg
- How Team USA Won Men’s Hoops — and the Entire Olympics
- Utah Hair Braider Cuts Back in Case Against State Regulators
- Hindu Devotees Celebrate Krishna’s Birth
- Penn State T-Shirts Lash Out at NCAA while Football Team Attempts to Revamp Image
- Obama Campaign Responds to Ryan Pick
- David Boudia of the U.S. Claims Diving Gold. Is China’s Dominance on the Wane?
- U.S. Women Win Fifth Consecutive Basketball Gold. Will the WNBA Benefit?
- The Olympic Games in Motion
- For Olympic Women, the Pressure to Look Perfect Lingers
- Man ‘Butt-Dials’ 911 During Drug Deal
- Ryan Considered, 140 Characters @ a Time
- A History of Vice Presidential Picks, from the Pages of TIME
- Ghana and the Double-Edged Sword of Democracy
- Not Underlined or In Italics
- The Ryan Speech
- Paul Ryan Excerpts
- Consensus
- The First Female U.S. Four-Star Generals Talk to TIME
- Reports of the Shopping Mall’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
- Quay Brothers at MoMA: Bending Realities for People and Puppets
- Eat Like a Man at the Nine ‘Manliest’ Restaurants in America
- Dwight Howard Is Traded To The Lakers!! And Oh Yeah, The Olympics: U.S. And Spain Will Vie For The Gold
- Have We Turned A Blind Eye To Domestic Terrorism?
- Late-Night Laughs: The 5 Best Comedy Clips of the Week
- Afghan-Green-On-U.S.-Blue Attacks Spiking Again
- Why Bats Are So Misunderstood
- Axelrod on Polls and Baseball
- Guess the VA Does Have a Paperwork Problem…
- Fresh Prince Supplants Harry Potter as Most Popular Entertainment at Guantánamo
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Youthful Arctic Adventure Journal to be Published
- On Square, Biohazards, Biting and the Psychology of Money
- Space Travel
- Money Talking: How Safe Are Money Market Funds?
- The 10 Best New Skyrim Mods for July 2012
- Are Facebook ‘Likes’ Free Speech?
- Echoes of Iraq: Yemen’s War Against al-Qaeda Takes a Familiar Turn
- Bambi Turns 70: And 9 Other Kids’ Movie Weepers
- Cartoons of the Week: August 4–10
- New Site Grades Those Pesky ‘Terms of Service’ Agreements You Never Read
- An Aspirin a Day May Still Lower Cancer Risk, but Not as Much as Previously Thought
- Pictures of the Week: August 3 – August 10
- “I Didn’t Want Anybody to Go to Jail”
- Must-Reads from Around the World, August 10, 2012
- Watch: Spike Lee Talks Red Hook Summer and the 4 Million Stories He Has Left To Tell
- Scientists Finally Create a Creepy Robotic Earthworm
- Google’s Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles, Zero Accidents
- Study: Guys Spend Stupidly When There Are Fewer Women to Date
- Unusual Summer Storm Blasts the Arctic
- It’s Nice to See Google Focused On Search Again
- Demonstrate Your Credibility as a Leader
- Do Credit-Card-Comparison Sites Work as Promised?
- Student Debt: Why Even the Affluent Struggle
- -- Excerpt from draft plans on possible speakers for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., beginning Sept. 3. h/t Mike Allen’s Playbook
- Reading While Eating for August 10: The Princess and the Poet
- Earning Millions Together: The World’s Highest Paid Celebrity Couples in 2012
- Can Meditation Make You Smarter?
- Meanwhile, Back on Earth: NASA Lander Prototype Crashes, Burns
- 6 Weight Loss Tips Straight from the Nation’s Premier Spas
- Foodie Alert: Would You Have a Living Fossil for Dinner?
- SCRIPT: Obama for America Ad, “Blatant”
- SCRIPT: Romney for President Ad, “America Deserves Better”
- Spike Lee: The Making of Red Hook Summer
- A Wristband that Tells You When to Get Out of the Sun
- App.net: Both Twitter Clone and Anti-Twitter
- Free Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education
- Into the Woods in Central Park: al Fresco Enchantment
- Olympic Injuries in Action: When Athletes Play Through Pain
- Training the Afghan Military
- Z Machine Produces Six Times the World’s Energy to Create White Dwarf Star
- Viewpoint: 11 Reasons a 23-Year-Old Shouldn’t Run Your Social Media
- Indian Territory…in Afghanistan
- 4 Reasons Not to Buy Clothes in August
- Friday’s Political Ledes
- In China, Brief Murder Trial of Ex-Official’s Wife Offers Few Answers
- Should You Take Statins? Study Says Heart Benefits Outweigh Diabetes Risk
- Different Leaves
- Unlikely Contenders: What Explains the Koreas’ Olympic Strength?
- Britain’s Olympian Capital: Why Yorkshire Produces So Many Winners
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