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Today: June 1, 2011 The Rent Isn't Too Damn High Why it's good news that more Americans are renting rather than buying homes. By Annie Lowrey READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech I Hereby Agree to Every Future iTunes Update All software should work like Chrome and install fixes silently. By Farhad Manjoo READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech The Crowd Is Wise—but Can It Draw? I offered the amateurs on Crowdspring.com $200 to design a logo for my newsletter. Here's what they came up with. By Rob Walker READ FULL STORY | More Arts German Communities That Murdered Jews in the Middle Ages Were More Likely To Later Support the Nazis The Incredible Talent and Tragic Decline of Gil Scott-Heron, the "Godfather of Rap" Why Not Let Defendants Pay for Their Own Imprisonment? Help! My Formerly Fat Friend Won't Stop Flaunting Her Weight Loss. Advertisement Briefing Do pickles cause cancer? How can we get the poor to save for retirement? News & Politics Violence in Abyei: So much for the peaceful division of Sudan. Afghanistan Counterinsurgency: Can Development Defeat the Taliban? Arts Save the Condé Nast maidens from the Tower of Terror! Facebook Music: Why we all love Explosions in the Sky. Life Those Guys Have All the Fun: A tour of ESPN's church of sports. Cosmic cookery: How fringe religious groups helped launch the health-food movement. Business & Tech FCC's National Broadband Map needs more fixes, fewer excuses. The FCC responds to Slate's article about the National Broadband Map. Science Arsenic-based life critiques published. How #arseniclife changed science. Daniel Kish uses echolocation to overcome his blindness. That's nothing new. Podcasts & Video Gastro Lab: How to make dessert with potatoes (VIDEO) Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life,starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, the death of musician Gil Scott-Heron, and David Mamet's newfound conservatism on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.

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