Penn State takes down the Joe Paterno statue: 6 takeaways

PENN STATE SCANDAL Penn State takes down the Joe Paterno statue: 6 takeaways In a controversial move, crews remove the legendary coach's likeness from outside the university's football stadium, more fallout from the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case THE DARK KNIGHT SHOOTINGS The Colorado shooting aftermath: A slideshow From informal gatherings to solemn vigils, the people of Aurora, Colo., unite to grieve after a gunman kills 12 in a local movie theater for unfathomable reasons THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN Obama's poor polls: Proof that the Bain attacks aren't working? Recent poll numbers have Obama and Mitt Romney tied, despite an aggressive effort by the Obama campaign to bash the GOP candidate's record at Bain U.S. BUSINESS Yahoo's Marissa Mayer: Is she the victim of the 'glass cliff'? Charging Mayer with turning the failing company around, Yahoo's board might be setting her up for failure, part of a pattern of high-level sexism in corporate America U.S. MILITARY The five men who volunteered to stand under a nuclear bomb On July 19, 1957, a small group of Air Force officers stood directly under an atomic explosion in a daring attempt to prove the warhead's safety THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN Is Romney buying Twitter followers? After Mitt Romney's popularity spikes, skeptics suspect social-media shenanigans — but his campaign says it's as puzzled as everyone else FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE How much does your cell phone company make from selling your data? Wireless carriers spend a surprising amount of time sharing customers' private data with law enforcement, who pay for the info using your tax dollars SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE The greatest Olympic race you've never heard of HUFFINGTON POST GREEN Dolphin math study suggests animals use advanced signal processing to find prey THE FISCAL TIMES Sleepless in America: A $32.4 billion business TECCA 71 of the strangest planets we've ever discovered outside our Solar System AOL J.C. Penney ditches cash registers, cashiers Cheating for the children A mother hacks into a school's computer system to change her childrens' grades — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.