Headlines from April 21, 2010
- Passenger jets begin departing northern Europe; however, new eruptions may cut the elation short.
- Chaplin's charm extends to a small Indian town that pays homage to him yearly.
- "America seems to be fascinated with what is going on here, or what is perceived to be going on." New Jersey, reality TV's new darling.
- Kosher foods are becoming popular among non-religious buyers, who purchase for quality.
- Patriarchal clergy society ensures that it's still a struggle to ordain female priests.
- Sommers: The gendered pay gap is a myth and result of different life choices.
- Designer creates cardboard box that eliminates wasted packaging space.
- Facebook could be the tool of choice for 21st-century revolutionaries.
- Crawford, Texas, now has four fewer memorabilia shops, and the former president occasionally passes through in a black SUV.
- Millennia after interbreeding with humans, Neanderthal DNA remains in today's population.
- Researchers discover body lice appearing 190,000 years ago, soon after people first began wearing clothes.
- Detailed nutritional breakdown of K.F.C.'s Double Down sandwich, and why it's not that bad.
- Chart shows the drink of choice for writers from Carson McCullers to Aldous Huxley.
- Rarely one for name-calling or naming names, Obama raises hackles at "cynical and deceptive" McConnell.
- Following Belgium, Sarkozy orders legislation to ban women from wearing Islamic veils in public.
- Britain reopens airspace late Tuesday.
- Sleeping in airports: the best, the worst, and a how-to.
- In California, signs of real estate recovery as mortgage default notices drop 40% during 2010.
- Bond producers halt the latest 007; first-ever Bond screen adaptation, featuring an American Bond.
- In Green Day's Broadway musical, Isherwood finds operatic archetypes.
- Bizarre story of Guru's recent death and his recent partner's mysterious letter; letter from Guru's family.
- Wainwright, his friends often say, can only be understood in the context of his family.
- Audio: Psychiatrists and critics on literature's "mad woman in the attic."
- Cartoonist James Sturm has now been offline for two weeks--an online update.
- Best profile you ever read of a zipper man.
- More than you may need to know about wasps performing neurosurgery to zombify cockroaches.
- Pictures of Moscow's stray dogs, traveling the city by subway.
- Recipe for Joël Robuchon's pasta carbonara.