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Today: May 11, 2011 Twitter in a Wringer What is it about Twitter that gets people into trouble? By Jack Shafer READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech Awsum Shoes! Is it ethical to fix grammatical and spelling errors in Internet reviews? By Michael Agger READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech Let in the Super-Immigrants! The best way to improve the U.S. economy fast is to poach entrepreneurs from the rest of the world. So why do we make it so difficult for them to immigrate? By Annie Lowrey READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech Was the Real Goal of the Bin Laden Raid To Snatch Up a Trove of Intelligence? Lithwick: The Gripping 4th Circuit Case That Could Upend Obama's Health Care Law Is It Cool if I Pay My Half of a Restaurant Check With a Groupon Coupon?   Advertisement   Briefing The longest 40 minutes: Why did time slow down for Obama during the Bin Laden raid? Is Mel Gibson's puppet from The Beaver a real form of therapy? News & Politics Universal health care in Vermont: Will it come to the rest of America? After Osama: Obama turns to more mundane issues like gas prices and immigration. Arts The Return of J. Lo: How did this happen? Bob Marley's death anniversary: rescuing his legend from dopey fans. Life Kitchen scales: They're tidier and more accurate than cups and teaspoons. David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and other stuff Slate writers liked last month. Science Extreme Ice Survey: Time-lapse video of Everest glaciers melting. Bin Laden's killing: Firefights? Resistance? The real rule was to kill all the men. Podcasts & Video Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wesley Yang's New York cover story "Paper Tigers," and the Beastie Boys' new album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast. Bin Laden dead: "Smashing Crayons" ponders how he might haunt the world in his afterlife.

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