President Obama praised the country’s leader after he reversed a decision to close an American air base.

Strategic Issues, Not Abuses, Are U.S. Focus in Kyrgyzstan

As summer finally heats up, Americans may be questioning whether air-conditioning has become a luxury they can no longer afford.

The Unchilled Life

The pharmaceutical industry has remained relatively unscathed so far in Washington’s effort to overhaul the nation’s health care system, but it is too soon for drug makers to declare victory.

More Cost Cuts Sought From Drug Industry

Tim Armstrong, chief executive of AOL, wants to make the company the biggest creator of premium content on the Web and the largest seller of online display advertising.

Daring to Dream of a Resurgent AOL

Tamiflu and hand sanitizer are added to the usual routines of swimming and crafts.

Summer Camp ’09: A Swim, a Cough, a Quarantine

The adventures in Bill Streever’s book take place in colder and stranger lands than the Arctic, and touch on everything from the physics of absolute zero to the cold-resistant gluttony of small birds.

Less Than Zero

A report showing that sales of existing homes rose 3.6 percent in June and a flurry of positive earnings reports fueled the surge.

Dow Closes Over 9,000; First Time Since January

Three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and others were charged on Thursday in a two-year corruption and money-laundering investigation.

44 Charged by U.S. in New Jersey Corruption Sweep

As “unscripted” series proliferate, reality shows are increasingly where the jobs are for those trying to break into the television business.

Television Fledgling Keeps it Real

The company significantly missed Wall Street’s revenue target and reported the first decline in full-year revenue in its 34-year history.

Microsoft Can’t Evade Downturn’s Tight Grip

Declan Donnellan harnesses the elements of fire and water to spectacular effect in the Chekhov International Theater Festival’s production of Alexander Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov.”

Of Czars and Blood, Ambition and Power

Countries are retreating to national regulations to protect themselves from international financial risk.

A Retreat From Global Banking

In “Being Human,” a witty new series on BBC America that begins on Saturday, three friends — a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost — struggle to blend into normal life.

Friendship, Thicker Than Blood

Seven months after Israel’s military campaign against its rockets, Hamas has shifted its focus to cultural initiatives to gain support at home and abroad.

Hamas Shifts From Rockets to Culture War

Once you know where to go, it’s easy to find live bands playing music to dance to, whether salsa, merengue, timba, rock en Español or cumbia.

New York Rhythm: Viva la Variedad!

The Critical Shopper column last Thursday, about Pylones, misidentified the founders of the company. They are Jacques Guillemet and Lena Guillemet, not Alan Ceppos and Frédéric Rambaud, who own the five Pylones stores in the United States.

Corrections: Critical Shopper | Pylones
On the Corner of Cute, Between Stupid and Clever 

An article last Thursday about overweight people who reject dieting misidentified the position once held by David Kessler, the author of the book “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.” He was the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, not the surgeon general.

Corrections: 		Tossing Out the Diet and Embracing the Fat

Backstage at the Met: Artistic Appreciation

Imagining the Moon: An Anti-Climactic Plot

Therapists in Film: Positive Stereotypes

Nude or Not?

The Brimfield Antique Show, which is held three times a year and attracts an estimated 5,000 vendors, was more relaxed than usual, with lots of bargains to be found.

Acres of Antiques, and on a Spree

A report by The Associated Press in the World Briefing column on July 14 about the police’s flogging of 10 women in Khartoum, Sudan, for wearing trousers in violation of strict Islamic law misstated the date of the punishment and referred imprecisely to its location. The flogging took place on July 3, not July 10, and was done inside a police station, not in public. (The station was open to the public, however.)

Corrections

A dance review on June 27 about the Mark Morris Dance Group’s production of “Dido and Aeneas,” at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, misstated the year Mr. Morris last performed in the work at one point. As noted elsewhere in the review, it was 2000, not 2003. The review also misstated the year he cast a female dancer as Dido at one point. As noted elsewhere, it was 2006, not 2004.

The Books of The Times review on July 6, about “Cheap,” by Ellen Ruppel Shell, and “Free,” by Chris Anderson, referred incompletely to experiments involving chocolate conducted by Daniel Ariely and cited in the books. The experiments, in which subjects were offered two different chocolates at different prices, and then offered one at a lower price and one free, were similar but not the same. The books did not describe the same experiment.

E. Lynn Harris was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African-American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books that made The New York Times Best Seller list, making him among the most successful African-American or gay authors of his era.

July 23, 2009

Headlines from July 23, 2009

Strategic Issues, Not Abuses, Are U.S. Focus in Kyrgyzstan

The Unchilled Life

More Cost Cuts Sought From Drug Industry

Daring to Dream of a Resurgent AOL

Summer Camp ’09: A Swim, a Cough, a Quarantine

Billboard 200

BLACKsummers'night

Hannah Montana 3

NOW 31

Nothing Personal

The E.N.D.

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 23, 2009