In 2003, researchers at a federal agency proposed a long-term study of 10,000 drivers to assess the safety risk posed by cellphone use behind the wheel.

U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving

The storefront vacancy rate in New York is at its highest point since the 1990s and is expected to grow.

Stores Go Dark Where Buyers Once Roamed

Just how much could the bailout of the financial system end up costing American taxpayers?

Big Estimate, Worth Little, on Bailout

In the downturn, the do-it-yourself ethos extends to families burying loved ones, sometimes in their yards.

Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative

Despite positive signs, Ben S. Bernanke said the labor market was weak and interest rates would likely stay low.

Fed Aims to Hold Down Interest Rates

The vote in the Senate to delete financing for new F-22s was a victory for President Obama in his efforts to reshape the military’s priorities.

Obama Wins Crucial Senate Vote on F-22

Three decades of population growth, budget problems and the rising cost of social services are being felt in California.

Pinch of Reality Threatens the California Dream

The company’s quarter was led by sales of Macintosh computers and a burst in iPhone purchases, after the introduction of the new 3GS.

Sales Drive Robust Quarter for Apple

A master’s program in Italy is focusing on the restitution of looted art in what is billed as the first master’s in international art crime studies.

A Master’s in Art Crime (No Cloak and Dagger)

In an otherwise bleak summer ABC has managed to nurture “Wipeout,” now in the middle of its second season, into a hit franchise.

Gluttons for Punishment Are Balm for ABC

Declan Donnellan’s critically renowned production of Alexander Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov” is coming to the Park Avenue Armory.

Lincoln Center Festival Makes Way for the Czar

The Shabab, a militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia, is considered a threat to Westerners living in Kenya.

Radical Islamists Slip Easily Into Kenya

Companies are planning to invest in artists who lack record deals and help them find audiences online.

Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane

In this mordant memoir, The Onion’s Nathan Rabin examines his own fractured childhood through the foamy detritus of pop culture that was often all he had to cling to.

Memories of a Train Wreck Diverted

Target has been building itself into a tastemaker for books over the last few years, highlighting largely unknown writers through its book club and Bookmarked Breakout program.

Target Can Make Sleepy Titles Into Best Sellers

Deals involving special-purpose acquisition corporations that sat on cash and safe investments outperformed those that did deals.

Blank Checks Firing Blanks

The executives of Synthes Inc., a medical device maker, pleaded guilty for their role in illegal trials of bone-mending cements that led to three deaths.

Two Executives Plead Guilty in Illegal Use of Bone Cement

Two reports in the baseball spotlight roundup on Sunday contained errors.

Corrections

A music review on Saturday about the Kronos Quartet, at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, misstated the title of a song by the band Café Tacuba that the quartet played. It is “12/12,” not “11/11.”.

A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Monday about plans for a production of “Il Mondo Della Luna” by Haydn, at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, misstated the opening date. It will play from Jan. 19 through Jan. 28, not from Jan. 18.

An obituary on Monday about the writer Frank McCourt included several errors. A memoir published by his brother Malachy McCourt is titled “Singing My Him Song,” not “Singing Him My Song.” The director of the film adaptation of Mr. McCourt’s memoir “Angela’s Ashes” was Alan Parker, not Robert Parker. And Mr. McCourt’s birth date was Aug. 19, 1930, not Aug. 30, 1930, as it was given in some editions because of an editing error.

Because of an editing error, an obituary Saturday about the CBS newsman Walter Cronkite misspelled the name of the church in Manhattan where his family plans to hold a private funeral service. It is St. Bartholomew’s, not Bartholemew’s.

The cover article on July 12 about crab shacks on Maryland’s Eastern Shore misidentified the historical figure for which Smith Island is named. It was Henry Smith, an early land owner — not the English colonist Captain John Smith, who charted the Chesapeake in 1608. The article also erroneously attributed a distinction to the island. It is Maryland’s — not the Chesapeake Bay’s — only inhabited “offshore” island.

Correction: The Crab Houses of Maryland’s Eastern Shore

The director Wim Wenders, below, said he would move ahead with a 3-D film project he had begun developing with the choreographer Pina Bausch, The Guardian reported. Before Ms. Bausch, the founder of the experimental Tanztheater Wuppertal dance company, died in June, Mr. Wenders (“Buena Vista Social Club”) had started preproduction on the film. Though Mr. Wenders had previously said he would not continue with it, he told The Guardian that Ms. Bausch’s fans had urged him on. “A new concept has to be developed, of course,” Mr. Wenders said, according to the newspaper. “We are working on it. And we will not let the opportunity and privilege pass to record in 3-D the choreographies and dance compositions rehearsed and overseen by Pina Bausch.”.

July 21, 2009

Headlines from July 21, 2009

U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving

Stores Go Dark Where Buyers Once Roamed

Big Estimate, Worth Little, on Bailout

Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative

Fed Aims to Hold Down Interest Rates

Billboard 200

NOW 31

American Saturday Night

Cradlesong

Wilco (The Album)

The E.N.D.

Historical Context for July 21, 2009