Headlines from March 24, 2011
- Treasury starts freezing Gadhafi's estimated $100 million--and stops 72 hours later, $30 billion frozen.
- Next time you feel like complaining about CNN or Fox's news slant, try Libyan state TV.
- Op: Cosmo's Middle Eastern launch could be an engine of feminist change.
- Timeline of escalating Israeli-Palestinian tension.
- The Saudis' goal in Bahrain is clear; no revolution in the gulf monarchies, especially by Shia.
- Review of products being sold--shirts, posters, giant robots--to help Japan.
- Movie theaters loathe to post popcorn calorie counts for fear of declining sales.
- China to ban smoking in public places.
- Lost key probably to blame for D.C.'s airport control tower going dark for half an hour.
- Video: Clips where actors attempt to touch audience by touching themselves.
- Curse words aren't becoming more common in pop culture--"fuck" is merely losing power while becoming incorporated.
- Yelp makes "hipster" an ambiance choice in restaurant reviews.
- Author of Sweet Valley books, now coming back, never set foot in California.
- Video: Bryan and his mustache introduce Field Notes' "dry transfer" edition.
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- Possible stalemate: Gadhafi controls Tripoli and western Libya; rebels hold east under outside protection.
- Kuwait and Jordan offer logistic help to Libya intervention.
- There will be no different yardsticks. Departing Arab League head answers questions about hypocrisy.
- Portugal's prime minister quits after austerity measures are again rejected; bailout appears likely.
- Ivory Coast's rightful president unlikely to receive requested U.N. or West African government intervention.
- Design features of Obama's top secret tent, where he goes to call friends without being overheard.
- Photos from Haiti, Mexico City, Japan of people waiting in line this past week.
- Chart: Where arms go when they're exported.
- Popular Mechanics goes inside JFK's "ace in a hole," a Montana nuclear missile control capsule.
- Real headline: "Steven Seagal, Sheriff Raid Valley Home In Tank."
- Who can cross a busy road better, a varsity wrestler or a psychology major? The wrestler--for thinking faster.
- Roberto Bolaño remembers the books he stole.
- The Wire reviewed--excellently--as a 19th-century novel that influenced Dickens.
- Niemann on his nuclear-flower New Yorker cover's inspiration: "I thought it was a scarily quiet disaster."
- Stories of Burton and Taylor's long-running love disaster, drawn from Taylor's letters.
- Times Taylor obit prepared for so long, its principal author died in 2005.