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Today: July 28, 2011 It's Not "Default" The U.S. will not default after Aug. 2. Something much weirder and more chaotic will happen. By Annie Lowrey READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech Why Congress Deserves an "A" Don't blame Congress for not passing laws. It's designed that way. By Shankar Vedantam READ FULL STORY | More Science Overeducated, Underemployed How to fix humanities grad school. By William Pannapacker READ FULL STORY | More Arts Signs That Boehner Might Be Winning the Tea Party's Support for His Debt Plan Some Researchers Say Coffee Is Good for You; Others Say It's Bad. Who's Right? How Trey Parker and Matt Stone Reinvented the Musical by Making It More Like South Park Why Are So Many People From Guinea Named Diallo? Advertisement Troy Patterson Gets Another Guy Named Troy Patterson To Review Same Name Captain Morgan Has Wrongfully Besmirched the Good Name of Rum Briefing Slate internships: intern for The Slatest. Amy Winehouse rehab: Can you force someone to get substance-abuse treatment? News & Politics Debt-ceiling vote: Can John Boehner win it? What if he can't? What Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and American "birthers" have in common. Arts Hey, that's my grandpa! A gallery of people rediscovered by relatives generations later on Flickr (PHOTOS).  The Search for Animal Chin: Without Stacy Peralta's path-breaking, kick-flipping skate movie, there would be no X Games. Life Dear Prudence: I'm dating a potential pervert. NFL concussion lawsuit: How the NFL is like Big Tobacco. Business & Tech Netflix streaming is killing piracy. Slate on Google+: Google plus accounts of Slate writers. Science Telomere tests: the buzzy new DNA analyses that claim to reveal how "old" our bodies really are. Why do dogs rub up against things that smell bad?

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