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Headlines from April 19, 2012

Report says Breivik massacre has led Norwegians to believe more strongly in their open society.
Tales from 100 hours of wilderness medical training.
New crisis—pictures of soldiers posing with insurgents’ remains—suggests discipline lost in Afghanistan.
Pat Summitt, winningest coach in college basketball, stepping down due to early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Coordinated hunger strike launched by at least 1,200 jailed Palestinians.
Maybe we should call it a food swamp rather than a desert. Studies find poor neighborhoods have more food of all kinds than more affluent zones.
Rent-a-cow tax loophole costs Floridians millions each year.
Story of the artist, politician, and stunt that led to Sweden’s culture minister slicing from the crotch of a screaming cake.
Italian museum burns its own artwork to protest budget cuts.
Portraits of psychics. #photography #tmn
Terrific story on what it cost eight women writers to make it in New York City, from Zora Neale Hurston to Kate Christensen.
Reality of life for a crack cocaine user in contemporary South London. #audio
Tales from London’s lost coffeehouses.
Tribute to Levon Helm, “true voice of America,” who faces cancer.
I once knew a woman who fed me tea and oranges that came all the way from China, and so I only ask that I get a discount. Leonard Cohen’s Yelp reviews.
Agni-V is to meet our present-day threat perceptions. India tests intercontinental missile.
North Korea to continue rocket launches, announces it’s abandoning February nuclear deal with U.S.
Nongovernmental organizations sponsor knowledge exchange and collaboration between U.S. and North Korean scientists.
From eyeless shrimp to clawless crabs, deformities becoming common in Gulf seafood—researchers blame 2012 BP spill.
Recipes for Texas’s most delicious invasive species.
I represent a nationalist alternative, just like Breivik. Norwegian mass murderer’s American pen pal speaks out.
Mattel will produce a bald Barbie to comfort children undergoing cancer treatments.
Study finds “breast cancer” is really 10 separate diseases, each requiring a different plan of attack.
Komen foundation again courts controversy by teaming up with Uzbek dictator’s pop star daughter.
It was the first jacket I’d ever seen that included a constantly popped collar. An excerpt from TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin’s forthcoming Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.
Despite pop culture’s best efforts, there’s little connection between personality type and drug of choice.
Factors that contribute to stuttering include childhood physical trauma, genetics, and overbearing parents.
A retrospective of Dick Clark’s career, from Rate-a-Record to the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.
Dick Clark manages a difficult interview with Prince on American Bandstand in 1980. #video
The next generation of homemaking advice for Millennials who don’t know how to clean and can’t be bothered to cook.