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Headlines from September 14, 2010

Top one percent now captures 18 percent of the national income, with no more skills than workers beneath them.
Op: The international aid system is easily manipulated, and always profits the elite.
Chronicle of the rise of Foxconn, China's billion-dollar tech company, and the suicides that brought it down.
Moral lesson 244 learned from soccer: Celebrate after you've stopped the ball, not before.
Last week, 10 people died in riots in Mozambique, set off by Russia's grain export ban.
Photos of combat meals eaten by different countries' troops in Afghanistan.
Profile of de Gaulle, back in vogue for his Middle East legacy.
Belusconi tells girls to find wealthy boyfriends, then makes a Hitler joke.
Iron Man and Batman may display gray-area morality, but their humanity makes them better role models.
Instapaper for the commute: New Yorker profile of Facebook's Zuckerberg.
More about Facebook: privacy settings for bigamists.
Most common words used to rate iPhone applications.
Videos: Everything Is a Remix; Welcome Freshmen.
Cuba to lay off more than 500,000 state workers, shift to a market-oriented system--this of course means Communism failed.
No it doesn't, says Fidel Castro, who also said it does; in addition, the Cuban missile crisis "wasn't worth it all."
At a Braves game, public restroom spies find a third of men didn't wash up; Chicago and San Francisco have the cleanest hands.
With transparent trash bags and tracking software, communities exploit peer pressure to encourage sustainability.
How 3-D printing will revolutionize manufacturing: Everything from jewelry to houses can be squirted from a computer.
Op: In order to foster Mideast peace, the U.S. must operate from a position of preeminence.
Pentagon rushes to destroy all copies of a new military tell-all book.
"I have not been able to forgive him yet. But I'm not thinking about him all the time." Yoko Ono on Mark David Chapman and forgiveness.
A look at how Chapman and John Lennon's death still reverberate in today's books, movies, and music.
Story of a World War II performer who sang for Germans and smuggled secrets for the British.
Eyeing the future of music, TMN's Llewellyn Hinkes balances convenience and fidelity.
Scientists map the brain to find the chemical basis of religion.
Religious ceremony speeds up fish evolution in Mexico.
Study finds video game training leads to faster reaction times.