7/31: The Alexander McQueen show at the Met will likely rank as one of the museum's 20 most popular exhibitions.
7/30: "Livener" is British slang for an alcoholic drink.
7/26: Police in Norway are rarely armed.
7/24: Vitamin Water has half as many calories as Coke.
7/22: Tiger Woods fired his caddy of 13 years.
7/21: Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murdering her daughter, has managed to elude the media since being released from prison.
7/20: Arizona has set up a state fund to accept private donations for building a fence at the Mexican border.
7/19: Congress may be able to allow an increase in the government's debt limit without actually voting on it.
7/18: More than 1,700 prisoners in California, many of them in maximum isolation units, have gone on a hunger strike.
7/17: A new stimulant called "bath salts" is becoming popular.
7/16: Barry H. Landau, who calls himself "America's Presidential Historian," is being accused of document theft.
7/15: Soldiers in Baja California discovered a 300-acre plantation of eight-feet-tall marijuana plants.
7/14: Austria is considering adding a reference to "daughters" (there's already one to "sons") to its national anthem.
7/13: The SEC has opened an inquiry into Fletcher Asset Management.
7/12: The Israeli Parliament passed a law banning any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel.
7/11: Weekend ridership on the New York City subway has doubled in the past 20 years.
7/10: Angelina Jolie will play Cleopatra in a remake of the Elizabeth Taylor film.
7/9: An Atlantic City casino is actively marketing itself to gays.
7/8: The Republic of South Sudan is an independent country.
7/7: According to U.S. intelligence, terrorists are considering boarding flights with surgically planted explosive devices.
7/6: Soda fountains are being reinvented along local, seasonal, homemade lines.
7/5: Pilots are testing using iPads instead of the 40-pound flight bags filled with manuals, logbooks, and other materials.
7/4: China has tougher fuel-efficiency standards than the U.S.
7/3: Chase and U.S. Bank are adding European-style microchips to a handful of their credit cards.
7/2: DNA testing is now being used to identify unscooped dog waste.
7/1: Mark Halperin referred to President Obama as "a dick" on MSNBC.
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