Today in Slate: Romney Means Business; Plus, Saletan on Kevorkian

Today: June 3, 2011 A Cover-Up, Not a Crime. Why the case against John Edwards may be hard to prove. By Richard L. Hasen READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics Romney Means Business With a slow economy, can Mitt Romney's pitch work? By John Dickerson READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics Jill Abramson: Built Truck Tough An excellent, if unsurprising, choice for executive editor of the New York Times. By Jack Shafer READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz. I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It How Bad Is the Latest Dismal-Sounding Economic News? Advertisement The Best Thing About the New X-Men: The Love Affair Between James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender Is The Killing's Nuanced Portrait of Grief the Reason Viewers Are Losing Patience With It? Briefing Are helicopters safer than cars? Palinisms: Did she really say that? News & Politics Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin running for president? Comparing the two Mama Grizzlies. Weinergate: Was Anthony Weiner's Twitter account hacked? The evidence for and against. Arts Steve Coogan interview: The Trip actor talks about playing himself and his disdain for impressions. Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks: next on the Audio Book Club Life National Spelling Bee winner Sukanya Roy: How have Indian-Americans won nine out of the last 13 competitions? It's gloppy, it's soggy, it's un-American. Business & Tech DSK scandal at the IMF: How to choose the organization's next leader. Cellphones aren't a cancer threat. Why do people always freak out about it? Science Do pickles cause cancer? Dominique Strauss-Kahn's GPS ankle monitor: Should we let defendants trade jail for electronic tracking? Podcasts & Video Mitt Romney's presidential run, Rep. Anthony Weiner's tweets, and the national economy on this week's Political Gabfest podcast. Silvio Berlusconi, Michele Bachmann's and Sarah Palin's potential White House bids, and Boomers aging gracefully on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.

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Culturebox: How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee?

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culturebox How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee? Take our test and find out. By Nina Shen Rastogi Posted Friday, June 3, 2011, at 11:21 AM ET Last night, Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old from Pennsylvania, won the 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling cymotrichous, a Greek-descended word meaning "having wavy hair." Are your orthographic skills better than an eighth grader's? Try our mock spelling bee and find out. Each word in the quiz below won some lucky kid the grand prize in a past bee. Click on the audio player to hear the word pronounced. Need a hint? Click and drag your cursor over the [bracketed] area to reveal the word's part of speech, definition, use in a sentence, language of origin, and, finally, its spelling. To continue reading, click here. Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz. I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It	Advertisement
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Today's Cartoon: Might

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cartoon index Cartoons Updated Monday, April 13, 2009, at 2:48 PM ET Cartoon by Tony Auth. More cartoons on Pakistan here. To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz. I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It	Advertisement
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Moneybox: No Worse Than Expected

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moneybox No Worse Than Expected Sure, the economy is bad. But at least it's meeting expectations. By Annie Lowrey Posted Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 6:38 PM ET If you thought the recovery was on track--the economy growing again, unemployment slowly receding, housing prices stabilizing, the stock market rising--you thought wrong. In recent weeks, virtually every indicator has headed south. The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that such setbacks are hardly unexpected. Let's start with housing, which accounts for about 20 percent of the national GDP. This week, the most-watched housing index confirmed that prices have dropped to a new recession-era low, down in 19 of the 20 biggest metro regions from a year ago and confirming a double dip. The National Association of Realtors also reported a sharp 12 percent drop in pending home sales for April--meaning that further price declines are likely. To continue reading, click here. Annie Lowrey reports on economics and business for Slate. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for the Washington Independent and on the editorial staffs of Foreign Policy and The New Yorker. Her e-mail is annie.lowrey@slate.com. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz. I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It	Advertisement
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How Many People Actually Buy Groupons

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		Tech Media Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Travel Politics Latest Video Friday, June 3, 2011 How Many People Actually Buy Groupons Of Groupon's 83 million email subscribers, just 19%, or 16 million have actually bought a Groupon, according to its S1 filing. (It sounds like a small percentage, but it's improving! In 2010 Groupon had 9 million paying customers, which was 18% of its total email subscribers for the year.) Read » Also On SAI Today: AOL INSIDER: Here Are 12 Reasons Why The AOL–Huffington Post Merger Is Going Down In Flames Zynga's New Headquarters Will Have A Dog Run On The Roof Futurist Paul Saffo On Why Google Is Like A Fungus And What Facebook Has To Do Next Exclusive Interview With Danny Meyer: The Truth About The Restaurant Industry Advertisement CHART OF THE DAY: Groupon's Massive Revenue And Massive Losses CHART OF THE DAY: Google Is Much More Important Than Facebook For Purchasing Decisions CHART OF THE DAY: Android Users Are Bigger Data Hogs Than Anyone Share this: Buzz Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.careers@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the SAI RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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