Headlines from March 9, 2010
- Most active thing George W. Bush has done in his post-presidency period is to call on Ulster to accept a deal.
- Israel announces interest in developing nuclear power, having never admitted being a nuclear power.
- Big Pharma giants battle for control of Germany's Ratiopharm.
- Memos show the C.I.A.'s waterboarding to be so awful, agents had to grapple with detainees trying to let themselves drown.
- Battling "ferocious" competition from Mexico, Jamaica bolsters its tourism business by appealing to Jews.
- Slideshow of milestones in women's history and the courageous women behind them.
- Scientists say men with wide faces are untrustworthy.
- The week in research: Mind-control toys coming soon.
- Video: Archive of brain experts trying to explain neuroscience simply.
- Ian McEwan's new climate-change novel reduced to about 700 words.
- Wallace's letters show a writer who took painstaking care with his art. UT-Austin buys the D.F.W. archive.
- Walk-through of a spectacular treehouse.
- A very brief history of the pocket.
- Video: Child probably shouldn't have been given a Batman costume.
- Videos and investigative notes on the violence near Jos.
- Sachs's Millennium Villages are successfull--"islands of success in a sea of failure," say detractors.
- Togo experiences the latest seemingly fraudulent election followed by mass protest and government crackdown.
- Chart: How everyday life in Iraq has changed.
- Meet Hekmatyar: The Afghan warlord that D.C. is alternately courting or attempting to kill.
- Instapaper for the commute: Mir Hossein Mousavi is Iran's Nelson Mandela.
- Supreme Court justices are like baseball commissioners, or, a history of the judge-umpire analogy.
- The value of a blocked shot and other highlights from MIT's symposium on sports economics.
- The war in international exit signs is a matter of red vs. green, letters vs. running men.
- B.R. Myers's collection of North Korean propaganda posters.
- Krabattophily: An appreciation in photographs for outdoor mattresses (even more).
- Citizen scientists discover interstellar dust.
- The future of printing is pointing pointing to 3*TYPE.
- Roz Chast's A-to-Z disease primer may or may not help you sleep better.
- Selection of space-age aviation industry advertisements.
- Coffee-powered car.