Headlines from March 18, 2010
- Thai Prime Minister says he'll talk with protesters if they stop throwing blood.
- E.U.'s new foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, visits Gaza.
- Op: The only way Israeli liberals can mount an offensive is if America keeps applying heat.
- All but one of the missionary-taken Haitian children returned to their parents.
- Family behind "David After Dentist" video turns internet fame into college payments.
- Remarkable pictures of the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
- See also: Photographs of "minor places" in Japan; collection of 366 hand-painted plexiglass petri dishes.
- Samples from a "little book of oracles" from a fourth-century-B.C. Egyptian magician.
- The Governor of the Ecole Militaire will use six aides to take his place in performing the conjugal service. Reading the blogs of 18th-century France.
- Part of the exodus, Paul Ford quits Harper's and explains why to Choire Sicha.
- Choire Sicha's 50 questions you probably won't see on the census.
- Will you be punished for ignoring the census? Probably not--except by your conscience.
- Video: "I Feel Better" by Hot Chip.
- Amnesia Nigeriana: When Nigerians blank out national trauma to preserve sanity.
- Op: How many U.S. officials will be branded anti-Semites before AIPAC and Lieberman realize that Netanyahu screwed up?
- Wyoming's hawkish senator Alan Simpson is back, but Republicans can't love him in the Tea Party era.
- Big banks better than small banks about paying off bailout funds.
- Scotland aims to be the "Saudi Arabia of marine energy" with tide and wave power.
- Chart: A century of America's eating habits, 1909-2009.
- Object large enough to be visible to the naked eye put into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.
- Amazon plays hardball with Apple and publishers.
- Slideshow: Classic publishing print ads.
- Of the nearly 1,000 foreign-language films released in the U.S. since 1980, only 22 have grossed more than $10 million.
- R.I.P. Alex Chilton, the hitmaker; story about the Butthole Surfers in which Chilton plays a part.
- Community of poets lives inside the user-comment sections of New York Times articles.
- Today's long read: Wyatt Mason profile of David Simon and Treme.