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Today: August 24, 2011 In Praise of Leading From Behind It was the best possible policy in Libya. By Anne Applebaum READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics How Hard Is It To Get a Cartoon Into The New Yorker? Hard. By James Sturm READ FULL STORY | More Arts Do Less, Do It Better A recipe for Amazon's rumored iPad competitor. By Farhad Manjoo READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech Completely Implausible Republican Candidates Who May Still Join the Race! Why Patricia Marx Made the Heroine of Her New Novel a Lingerie Designer Are East-Coast Buildings as Earthquake Proof as West-Coast Buildings? Twins Make Me Feel Lame for Not Having a Twin Advertisement What You Miss Isn't Nirvana. It's the Time When Everybody Liked Nirvana.   Briefing East Coast earthquake: What's the best thing to do in an earthquake, and your other questions answered. What will happen to Qaddafi's sons? News & Politics The constitutional quibble with the autopen. (It's not what you think it is.) Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Nafissatou Diallo: Are prosecutors framing the victim? Arts The Secret Life of Pronouns by James Pennebaker:What do "I" and "we" reveal about us? Fallingwater turns 75: Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic home gets a book worthy of its magical achievement. Life The methodological confusion of twin studies. Cryptophasia: The secrets of twin speak. Business & Tech Long-term unemployment: Can the Obama administration do anything about it? Texas Miracle: Can other states replicate Texas' economic success? Science Twins: A Slate special issue. The double stroller: a brief history.

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