Headlines from March 17, 2010
- Few examples exist of pouring blood as a form of political protest, and no one--including Thai magicians--knows what it means.
- Fizzy anticipation over Obama's visit to Indonesia.
- Op: Obama's education reform is a compromise designed to placate school administrators and teacher unions.
- Six suicides in six months at Cornell.
- Op: College basketball is a sleazy game; Kentucky's Calipari is the sleaziest.
- The science of free-throw shooting.
- David Byrne on collaboration, with pictures of his home studio.
- Within a generation, the world's population will almost certainly be stable.
- Photos from a trip across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2; photos from a trip around Astoria with Sam Lipsyte.
- World's first skyscraper with built-in wind turbines erected in London.
- Story of an accused Jamaican gang boss that the U.S. would like extradited, and Jamaica is slow to part with.
- Another reason to celebrate the Irish: "They saved the books of the Western world."
- In the literature on the hold-up problem, vertical integration is one proposed solution. Economics in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- Day jobs held by famous writers.
- Periodic table of science-fiction film and television.
- Israel and the U.S. speak more gently in public, but privately remain at a standstill.
- Op: The American demands are reasonable and fair; stagnation in the diplomatic process is a threat Israel can by no means afford.
- Rabbis to perform the Passover story on Twitter.
- Lions, subsurface fist-fights, and fiancés: Gaza's tunnel economy.
- Video: The life of a Palestinian teenager working in the tunnels.
- European mummies found in China.
- Chart: Where U.S. foreign aid goes.
- Pakistan's Sialkot produces up to 60 million soccer balls a year without child labor; children make bricks instead.
- "Lifestyle audits" sought for South Africa leaders found living high on the corruption hog.
- Lockerbie bomber doing much better now, after being released from Scottish prison with only three months to live.
- Thai protesters spill blood.
- Andrew Young responds to the Rielle Hunter interview, with talk of other women, more sex tapes.
- We're a 12-pack nation that won't let anybody have a joint. Charles Bowden explains what's happening in Ciudad Juárez.
