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Headlines from December 15, 2010
- Among O.E.C.D. countries, Germany's young have lowest unemployment rate due to apprenticeship system.
- South Carolina's DeMint says Christian government employees shouldn't be forced to work 10 days before Christmas.
- Profile of San Francisco's murderer groupie, former fiancé of John Mark Karr.
- Analysis says N.R.A. is perhaps D.C.'s most powerful lobby, able to intimidate everyone, including the president.
- Bad paintings of Barack Obama.
- Scientists hope colony of specially bred animals and engineered viruses will help cure AIDS soon.
- Sacks: One doesn't tend to think of oneself of having a condition.
- Compelling audio explanation tells why, mathematically, altruism doesn't exist in biology.
- How early success set "child authoress" Barbara Follet on path from child prodigy to missing person.
- Audio: Inspiring story of a young Mexican-American who decided to walk from Ecuador to North Carolina.
- Exotic traveling narration meets Timbuktu's salt merchants, bibliophiles, and marabouts.
- I dread packing just as much as I did when I started. Things even long-term travel can't fix.
- Books to read if you're deploying to Afghanistan (and why Wolf Hall is a good idea to pack).
- Interior pictures of office refrigerators; every 2010 cover of Vogue mashed together.
- Fifteen best data visualizations of 2010; photo of the year: Monkey rescues puppy from gas explosion.
- Emanuel faces a grueling, even lighthearted interrogation from Chicagoans who want to keep him off the ballot.
- Rahm's having a tough time proving residency with a "for sale" video of his Chicago home.
- In Hong Kong, a billionaire family welcomes triplets, and many accuse them of paid surrogacy--a crime in Hong Kong.
- White-collar employees could soon be working in 50 square feet--compared to 500 or more 30 years ago.
- Where aspiring entrepreneurial chefs hone their craft: a rent-by-the-hour commercial kitchen in Queens.
- One reason offshore rigs in the Gulf may be so danger-prone is age--half are over 20 years old; about a third date back to the '70s.
- The Big Picture kicks off its year in photos; the best N.A.S.A. photos of 2010.
- The final nail in the coffin of Brooklyn cool will be hammered in with a Ford Edge.
- Op: Music alone can't create peace--saying so is another marketing ruse.
- I recently caught myself wondering darkly, "What kind of Christmas present do you get for someone who's dying?"
- Well, corny's not a dirty word for us either. The Coen brothers talk True Grit.
- After 400 years of auctions and rumor, scientists confirm a severed head belongs to France's King Henri IV.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart began the butler-as-murderer cliché as a quick fix to help her sons.
- Later that night I'll be ringing Matthew Perry's doorbell. Some futures I thought I might have.