Headlines from April 15, 2008
- Mothers from the Texas polygamist compound speak out against authorities and C.P.S.
- Related: What happens next for the displaced children.
- Creating artificial eggs and sperm from other cells could allow same-sex couples to have their own biological children.
- This is how things work in Russia. If the head of the state has a hobby, it will become the hobby of the nation. Dmitri Medvedev encourages yoga.
- Attention New York producers, backers, funders: Help float an illuminated Titanic.
- Three days left for you to explain why you should be TMN's next intern.
- How and why the U.S. should become solar thermal power's leader.
- Lying experiments suggest the I.R.S. should put an honor code on tax forms.
- Go on, RSC, put Hamlet on the Death Star. Why isn't there more science fiction in theater?
- Why some music can amplify a person's sadness almost unbearably.
- Audio: Listening to hurricanes with underwater microphones can help predict what they'll look like on land.
- Explaining the "natural" reasons why we all fall for base rate fallacies, e.g., "false positive rate."
- Wonkette falls out of the Gawker universe.
- In Iraq, car bomb explosions outside restaurants in two cities kill dozens.
- Debt collectors end up costing the I.R.S. more than the taxes they recover--to the tune of $37 million.
- Your tax questions, answered; why we should abolish taxes.
- A.P. photographer Bilal Hussein, held for two years by U.S. military in Iraq under suspicion of aiding insurgents, to be released on Wednesday.
- Seismologists predict California is in for a 6.7 earthquake within the next 30 years.
- Democrats reach for the Catholic vote: Obama went to Catholic School, Clinton praises the Vatican as "the first carbon-neutral state in the world."
- "Millennials": Not just cooler than you, but when Catholic, also more devout.
- "How do we get the 'cool' factor back into the priesthood?" New York Archdiocese faces dwindling seminary numbers.
- Researchers say faulty rivets led to the Titanic's rapid sinking; better construction could have kept the ship afloat longer, in time for help to arrive.
- In 1863, Abe Lincoln freed the slaves. But by 1965, slavery will be back!
- A brief history of ampersands, including some that don't look like them at all.
- "When [children] get to the age of clear speech and clearness of reason I associate with them, I wouldn't say play with them. Interview with Waugh gone wrong.