Headlines from September 16, 2010

White House divided over responding to a lawsuit hoping to stop the killing of an American-born al Qaeda-linked cleric.
Video: Jon Stewart explains the war on terror to Tony Blair.
Audiences don't connect with movies about contemporary wars, but video games about them are blockbusters.
Instapaper for the commute: Big Stewart profile anticipates worse culture, better Daily Show.
Profiles of the strangest/most special Republican candidates running for office in 2010.
Egyptian newspaper doctors White House photo to show Mubarak leading fellow leaders, not trailing behind.
Irish science minister withdraws from anti-evolution book launch after public embarrassment.
Professor reviews online cheat sheets: some very good, minus the blue jeans ads.
Anthropologist discusses the culture of trash; TMN's Doerr on garbage-making.
Mavericks' Mark Cuban: We don't sell basketball games, we sell "unique emotional experiences."
Restaurant-trained writer reports from inside the kitchen at French Laundry.
Susan Orlean hires someone to call her every day to check on her writing progress.
Nick Cave "has become our most dapper weirdo, a Don Draper for people who don't get up before sunset."
Video: Herzog narrates cartoon about the day he rescued Joaquin Phoenix.
Related: Herzog's diary for TMN about spinach and his underpants.
Politicians always say small businesses create jobs; they fail to mention that nearly all the jobs created are destroyed.
From Japan's Zaitokukai to Norway's Progress Party: the Tea Parties of the world.
Spain faces a housing crisis, with too many vacant buildings and too many banks on a lending spree.
E.P.A. fines 99 Cents stores for selling unregistered household products with illegal ingredients.
Yankees caps' popularity with criminals could be because it's the best-selling cap--or maybe it's Jay-Z.
His mobile phone rang during the lesson...Mr. Gosha casually asked if he could take the call. An English teacher meets his new student, a Yakuza boss.
French researchers employ a "defanged" version of the HIV virus in gene therapy to cure a deadly blood disorder.
Scientists are puzzled as to why we like painful, non-addictive chilies.
Op: Developed by two non-scientists, the popular Myers-Briggs personality test is about as accurate as a horoscope.
Studying the studies that try to predict homosexuality in children.
Parents began to choose names and forms of names simply because they liked them. How naming styles have changed across two centuries.
Designers show off the Lost World's Fairs.