Headlines from March 16, 2010
- George Mitchell's return to the Middle East now indefinitely postponed.
- Construction will continue in Jerusalem as this has been the case over the past 42 years.
- Op: Obama, please tone down the rhetoric; Netanyahu, cancel the building in Ramat Shlomo.
- Kim Jong-un is North Korea's new leader, and anyone else with the name "Jong-un" has been instructed to change it.
- "I got him, I got him" translates remarkably well from Arabic, as does "Shoot the motherfucker!"
- Instapaper for the commute: Toobin's profile of Justice Stevens.
- Karl Rove's new book uses a font developed in France.
- France's SNCF says more than 100 died in a train explosion--a training exercise gone awry.
- ABE is survived by a new generation of autonomous underwater vehicles. A Times obituary for an adventuring robot.
- Sooner or later, helium will be more precious than gold, and it's abundant in America.
- Prisoners use cell phones to run gangs and order killings, but jamming cell phones in prisons is illegal.
- "Man With Immense Pink Genitalia Sculpture Gently Rebuffed at Museum."
- Development of new racial slurs not keeping pace with mixed-race births.
- Videos: PS22 Chorus does Phoenix's "Lisztomania"; trailer for Treme.
- More than 50 new corruption cases opened against Americans who bilked Iraq reconstruction projects.
- Washington hopes Obama has a strategy for handling Netanyahu; AIPAC allies urge drawdown.
- Hitchens: Let's not forget that Ratzinger made it a crime to report child rape.
- Op: China will become the new Middle East, though Beijing appears not yet ready or willing to be a world leader.
- Japan has poked USSR. World War II as enacted on Facebook.
- Instapaper for the commute: Life of a lady king in Ghana. (See also: That's what Bea said.)
- New white-collar career path: interim executive.
- Dick Armey's history of socialism a tad flawed; Clarence Thomas's wife starts a tea-party nonprofit (interview).
- What you're really paying for when you buy $300 jeans: L.A. drama.
- Roald Dahl was a neurology writer, and even helped design a shunt valve.
- You're cutting off noses now? Set visit for new video by Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah.
- Video: Piano improvisation on ChatRoulette.
- Monuments repaired with Lego.
- Op: Because digital networks measure our place, we know exactly who the powerful people are; it's like high-school, except on a massive scale.