Headlines from February 15, 2012

Governments begin to use lotteries to encourage good citizenship.
Travel agents routinely beat online sites for finding cheaper fares; if the agent has a horrible website, they’re probably legit.
Long investigation into how iPhone apps use information stored in your address book.
Critique of journalism, PR, and attack dogs in “the cesspool” of Silicon Valley.
Q&A with author Cheryl Strayed, revealed to be the Rumpus’s Dear Sugar columnist.
Chicago’s new magazine, The Chicagoan, to go highbrow about the city and Midwestern stories.
London and New York taxis could learn lessons from Tehran’s “sophisticated eco-system of cab options.”
Reminder: Sharks are alone on Valentine’s Day and every other day. #photographs
Everything you wanted to know about the extraordinary history of the American wild hog.
Short film about Bermuda’s Johnny Barnes, who spends six hours a day wishing love to cars.
“Jeremy Lin can drop 38 points on the Lakers, but he can’t open the n-word to white or Asian people.”
Profile of Coleridge’s son, pegged as poetry’s biggest disappointment.
Pictures of Michael Cunningham’s bookcases, including his built-in bathroom storage.
Jamie Oliver finds guns, gold, and Joy Division master tapes in the basement of his new restaurant.
Roche issues an alert that a fake version of its cancer drug, without its active ingredient, is circulating in the U.S.
Document leak reveals a libertarian thinktank’s strategy to discredit climate-change science.
The Colorado River rarely reaches the sea; now U.S. and Mexican officials are searching for a way to feed it again.
Wooden sailboat to be employed in symbolic “slow trade” routes across the Atlantic.
Supreme Court Justice Breyer robbed at machete-point near his Caribbean home.
Authors with opposing views on American decline correspond about their books and theories.
If he makes it to the league and plays a White game, this will all be for nothing. What the success of Jeremy Lin means to Asian-Americans. #opinions
Brooklyn girls’ basketball team keeps winning in a season in which its coach died and after which its school will close.
The last time Picasso’s Guernica was in the UK, it was nailed to the wall of a Ford dealership in Manchester.
Mormon Church apologizes for posthumously baptizing Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
Related: “The Mormons: Our Secret Weapon in the War on Terror.”
There is a difference between saying, “Hey, you faggot” and “Hey, faggot.” Lesbian rapper Syd the Kyd on homophobic slurs.
The algebra of love by Dylan (with a brief appearance by Costello).