Noise in New York, Drought, and 'The Queen of Versailles'

Noise in New York, Drought, and 'The Queen of Versailles'

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Top Stories: Updates from the shooting in Colorado. The Times measures the decibel levels around New York to see how many could be dangerous. 

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World: Iran is concerned about what happens to them if Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria falls. 

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U.S.: Crops suffer as drought spreads across the United States also igniting forest fires and prompting falling water levels. 

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New York: The updated Coney Island still maintains its "grit."  

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Business: In Japan, a "small but growing number" of people are turning outside their own country for rice. 

Technology: Google promotes the idea of its company as mobile, a strategy which "makes it even harder to differentiate among the big technology companies." 

Sports: Jeremy Lin's move to Houston "could give them continued resonance in the vast basketball markets in Asia" where Yao Ming had previously won over Chinese fans. 

Opinion: Mark Edmundson asks "can online education ever be education of the very best sort?"

Theater: Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton perform in their roles as artistic directors of the Sydney Theater Company. 

Television: Remembering Tom Davis, one of the first writers on Saturday Night Live, who helped create Coneheads. 

Movies: A.O. Scott reviews the documentary The Queen of Versailles, which he says "captures the tone of the times with a clear, surprisingly compassionate eye."