Headlines from January 25, 2011
- Postal Service streamlines store closing process, plans to shutter 2,000 locations in two years.
- Historian accused of altering date on Lincoln pardon to hours before his assassination.
- Reboot, reject, recast: How to stop James Bond from getting old.
- Instead of casting, reality TV recruiters troll bars for alpha subjects.
- See also: The Omarosa Experiment, Paris Hilton and the American Cannibal.
- A study maps the anatomy of a smile to discern its true nature.
- The middle right ab bulges handsomely thanks to talk radio. Odenkirk explains his six-pack.
- Film editing legend Walter Murch describes how human evolution and optics guarantee 3D's failure.
- Today's record-seeking athletes struggle against the hardest obstacle in history: biology.
- Americans: What is your state the worst at?
- Related: Map of Twitter profanity.
- With few controls in place, study approves wearing the same jeans everyday without washing them.
- "Taco Bell's definition of 'seasoned beef' does not conform to consumers' reasonable expectation."
- What a vegetarian can learn by eating at White Castle for a week: cravings are fleeting.
- "Austerity": 1/8 of a shot. 2011 State of the Union Drinking Game.
- Biden reports for jury duty.
- Summary of the Palestinian document leak (story behind the leak).
- It is a good sign they even got to the stage of haggling over which settlements would end up where.
- Long read: Current state of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: dead.
- Uganda cabinet third largest in the world after North Korea and Kenya, with 71 members.
- One in five American divorces now involve Facebook.
- "Titrologue"--someone whose news-reading only includes headlines.
- Stock market now mainly traded by computers at "lightning speed."
- Investors in "small-cap" Chinese companies go blind through dangerous fog for chance to get rich quickly.
- U.K. council proposes cost-cutting measure: Use the crematorium to heat the swimming pool next door.
- Op: War-wise, Americans like magnificent crusades, not wars where the objective is less than unconditional surrender.
- Returning to '99: What it took to get Malick to direct The Thin Red Line.
- Cancer doesn't care if we're good or bad. No evidence backs idea that "a fighting spirit" prevents illness or improves recovery.
- Critics' picks for best art shows 2009-2010.
- Archived mix tapes; mix tape for a dead girl; the ideal pop song is 2:42.
- Video: Trailer for Bill Cunningham New York (see also, "Bill on Bill").
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