Headlines from August 30, 2010

Though research may now be in peril, the first stem cell therapy trials in humans are fast approaching.
Adam Clayton Powell IV takes aim at Charles Rangel, who usurped his father, who he mostly knew through letters.
O.E.D. signals a full move to the web--its latest print edition may be its last.
More frequent use of swear words indicates deception. How to tell when your boss is lying.
For struggling roadside attractions, it's either gimmick it up or go home.
The future of Britain's food costs is in question, with no end in sight to its disappearing wildlife.
The cinema is still, after several decades, the no. 1 place teens claim to be. Y.A. novelist Grace Dent reveals what she's learned about her audience.
Researchers find people who feel clean judge others more harshly.
The misleading world of Atari 2600 box art: side-by-side comparisons to the on-screen games.
See also: Todd Levin's "Consoles I Have Known," a look back at a lifetime of video game systems.
History of a legendary mathematics award, and the notion of mathematician as romantic hero.
Agatha Christie's family attacks Wikipedia for revealing famous twist endings.
Scientists discover a new Peruvian language on the back of a letter.
"Dropout factory" label works for colleges, too, and low-income minority students are disproportionately steered toward them.
Two days after last week's anti-PowerPoint op-ed by a U.S. colonel, N.A.T.O. command sacked him.
Second Mexican border-state mayor assassinated in two weeks.
Op: Nationalism is killing the E.U., turning it into a union in name only.
Scientists fear humans are like the wooly mammoth: symbol of a climate that no longer exists.
Op: Women borrow drag queens' art not simply to look like women but to feel like them.
Pro tennis players suggest Federer's William Tell video is fake.
Politeness enforcement tactics, and a great queue-jumping story.
Alan Richman's tactics for ordering wines in a restaurant; Alan Moore on "psychogeography," or poetry.
Jacob Lambert on the danger of children's books.
Related: TMN writers' kids report on their summer reading (and what authors are paid).
Top 20 books from independent presses this fall.
Sponsored contest beginning tomorrow: This week, TMN is giving away 20 copies of Tom McCarthy's C.
Thoughts about Bolaño while visiting a Chi-Chi's in Belgium.
Slideshow of a 137-day decomposition (or not) of a Happy Meal.
Man completes San Francisco half-marathon while drinking a beer for every mile run.