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Headlines from February 17, 2010

Toyota announces brake-override systems for future models, faster defect disclosure--just as new Corolla steering issues arise.
Criminologists review stats, assert no crime wave hit Houston or other Southwest cities after Katrina evacuees arrived.
New York Times digital, print divisions spar over whether to charge $10 a month or up to $30 for their iPad app.
U.S. economy grinds to halt as nation realizes money just a symbolic, mutually shared illusion.
TV presenter Ray Gosling arrested after telling BBC viewers he killed a former lover suffering from AIDS.
"Fans of Captain America weren't quite so sure they were fans of Eugenius." Why good band names matter, and why they're so rare.
"If an artist goes to a label and asks to record at Abbey Road they will be met with maniacal laughter."
A writer learns to be a scratch DJ, masters the art of the "baby scratch."
Hunting for the best wilderness survival guide; 1938 dating advice for single women.
Study: Birds' wing shapes changed with the clear-cutting of forests.
Photos of an hourglass nebula, created by a massive star.
Cuban critic pans Avatar; 20th Century Fox says the film isn't legally distributed in Cuba.
They hold hands, but they don't say anything to each other. They spend a lot of time like that. Roger Ebert, today.
Hitchens: North Korea's racist dictatorship has produced starving and stunted dwarves.
Slideshow: Presidential propaganda for kids.
The U.K. is all malcontents (71% before the crash), but even if "broken Britain" rings true, the numbers don't support it.
Stop urinating on me, Vollmann. Books that sound good in theory but are disasters.
Getting a new word into the dictionary isn't impossible, it just takes forward planning.
Searching for the lost factory workers of East Germany.
Saudi women boycott lingerie shops that employ men.
Amazing aerial photography captures Earth's basins.
Photos: Vice goes to Creationland.
Pictures from a historical dental museum; pictures of Wayne Coyne's house.
Enjoyable account of those "wonderfully unsettling" carnivorous plants.
Neuroscience is the new psychoanalysis, and the market for it is ever-expanding.
In France, a subsidy is provided for dying.
The new cremation for the fire-phobic: "bio-cremation," or "water resolution," or turning your corpse into liquid soap.