3 paths to electoral victory for Mitt Romney

THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN 3 paths to electoral victory for Mitt Romney The Electoral College math currently favors President Obama. But there's hope for GOPers: Romney still has a few plausible winning formulas THE ANTI-ISLAM-FILM RIOTS Was CNN wrong to mine the late Chris Stevens' journal? The news channel returns the late Libya ambassador's personal writing to his relatives, but not before it checks out some newsworthy details — and reports them THE APPLE UNIVERSE Did Apple rip off a famous Swiss clock's design? The Swiss Federal Railway alleges that the world's most valuable company stole its signature clock face for iOS 6 — and it wants Apple to pay up 2012 ELECTIONS How Rick Perry's campaign imploded: 4 new revelations A reporter who followed the Texas governor's failed bid for the White House dishes the unheard story behind the "oops" moment that sealed Perry's doom ROBOTS 9 robots inspired by animals: A slideshow Robots come in all shapes and sizes, thanks in no small part to the influence of Mother Nature SCIENCE + TECH Did cavemen have dentists? Researchers find a 6,500-year-old tooth with an awful cavity — that someone had stuffed with a primitive beeswax filling to ease the pain FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE Riots at the Foxconn plant: Proof of the unrest taking hold of China Scuffles between workers and security guards at a factory in China underscore the country's many labor problems, says Matthew Yglesias at Slate SEE ALL CARTOONS TECCA Did Google Street View provide clues to an unsolved Detroit murder? SLATE Researchers find four distinct types of breast cancer NEW YORK MAGAZINE Should Romney embrace George W. Bush? NEWSER 'Free' checking accounts: Not so free anymore SALON Tom Hanks attaches Emmy to his car, because he can The camera-watching camera A Maryland county sets up security cameras to keep an eye on cops' speeding cameras — 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.