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Headlines from May 14, 2012

Economists, scientists team up to find the gene that makes people good at business.
Fraudulent Stradivari dealer was so persuasive banks provided him with millions in return for photocopied appraisals.
Clients often ask, jokingly, whether we learn our trade in prison. Interview with a safecracker.
Related: “With Dicks in, all 6 WA congressional Democrats favor repeal of gay-marriage ban.”
Christian documents from the 10th and 11th centuries may describe the “Office of Same-Sex Union” and “Order for Uniting Two Men.”
To put it mildly, there’s something of a New Yorker feature curse going around Hollywood these days.
Former Booker T and the MGs bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, who played himself in The Blues Brothers, dead at 70.
Chris Herring on the nonsensical “jumble” of the New York Jets’ locker room.
Records from 1859’s Great Auroral storm.
Science hopes to solve coffee cup sloshing.
If Greece fails, global markets will plummet, and could take Obama’s re-election hopes with them.
Europe slips in survey of the nations people admire most—China is on the rise.
Culture war in Israel imminent with plans to end military exemptions for full-time religious students.
Photojournalist Horst Faas, who brought images of Vietnam to U.S. readers, dies at 79.
Live free or die… unless you’re a lady. A state-by-state guide to anti-choice laws so far.
Confronting Stan Lee about the injustice done to Jack Kirby by Marvel would be like grilling Mr. Peanut about the business practices of Kraft Foods.
Q&A with the New Yorker‘s cover editor on controversy and the covers that didn’t make it.
Related: The New Yorker FDR cover that never ran.
In ancient Rome, walking was a marker of culture and status.
How sex symbolism and vanity made our feet grow to look like shoes.
Pentagon releases study on studies; accountability office declares Pentagon’s study invalid.
A list of things claimed to be as addictive as cocaine and a list of things that are actually as addictive as cocaine.