What I learned in the New York Times during the month of June....
6/1: The first retrospective of a woman artist at the Museum of Modern Art was in 1982 (Louise Bourgeois). 6/2: There's a rare genetic mutation that guarantees a person will develop Alzheimer's disease. 6/3: Designer Tobias Wong killed himself. Plus: Amazon's Kindle will be sold at Target. Plus: AT&T is to begin charging extra for mobile users who hog bandwidth. 6/4: In 2008, 22 percent of black men who got married did so to a non-black woman, up from 15.7 percent in 2000 and 7.9 percent in 1980. Plus: Paige Rense Noland, the editor of Architectural Digest, is retiring. 6/5: A professional cyclist is being accused of using a tiny electric motor. Plus: The percentage of Americans who consider homosexuality as "morally acceptable" has crossed 50 percent; also, more men than women hold that view. 6/6: Some colleges are allowing students' pets to live in the dorms. 6/7: The Pac-10 and Big Ten conferences are considering expansions. Plus: Roger Federer is one week shy of tying Pete Sampras's record of 286 weeks being ranked number one. 6/8: Sexual activity while sleeping is called sexsomnia. 6/9: Raw kiwi, eggplant, mushrooms, or parsley can help alleviate garlic breath. 6/10: Last year, a North Korean man was sentenced to six months in a labor camp for watching a Jackie Chan movie. 6/11: A government panel essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well. 6/12: President Obama has been more aggressive in prosecuting leaks than any previous president. 6/13: Year-round residents of East Hampton, N.Y., call summer weekenders "citiots." 6/14: The Tony Awards are determined by 769 voters. 6/15: Major League Baseball licenses caskets and urns branded with teams' logos. 6/16: New York is poised to adopt no-fault divorce; it's the last state to do so. Plus: Milk cartons may no longer have special sell-by dates for New York City. 6/17: Mariah Carey is releasing a line or perfumes inspired by Ring Pops. 6/18: Estonia joined the euro zone. 6/19: Far-right groups in Japan are pressuring theaters not to show The Cove, the documentary about dolphin hunting there. 6/20: A bypass bridge at Hoover Dam is set to open in November. 6/21: New York City's Downtown Alliance is proposing to revitalize Water Street, in part by adding a Park Avenue–style median. 6/22: White House budget director Peter Orszag is 41. Plus: Knuckleballer pitchers keep a special glove for their catchers to use. 6/23: Prosecutors in Queens are treating financial crimes against the elderly as hate crimes. 6/24: Australia now has a female prime minister, Julia Gillard. Plus: A massage therapist accused Al Gore of "unwanted sexual contact" in 2006. 6/25: The New York State Legislature passed a law requiring New York City landlords to tell prospective tenants about a building's bedbug history over the past year. 6/26: Ford's Crown Victoria and the Lincoln Town Car are being discontinued. 6/27: Designer Tobias Wong, who suffered from a disorder called parasomnia, most likely hanged himself while sleepwalking. 6/28: People who make online videos can now license a song to use as a soundtrack for $1.99. 6/29: Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Ginsburg are good friends. 6/30: Police arrested more than 900 protesters at the Group of 20 meeting in Toronto.
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