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Headlines from February 18, 2013
- This is the first time that Americans are going to be relatively worse off than their parents or grandparents in old age.
- Gallery: Brian Ulrich’s photographs of abandoned malls and empty big-box stores. #tmn
- Mindy McCready is the third person to die from her season of Celebrity Rehab. #celebrities
- Gégé, as Depardieu is known, proved a feral scapegoat. France bids farewell to Gerard.
- For the college-educated, a look at the worst colleges to find a college-educated mate. #charts
- America’s history of racist soft-drink packaging and advertising.
- I see the way my son plays basketball…the way he’s focused. I see a different kid. In a new interview, Lance considers the rest of his life.
- Three decades after disbanding, the New York Cosmos, once America’s highest-profile soccer team, is back.
- Hearst Castle lands the top spot in California state park budgets for toilet paper.
- In search of square footage, Brooklyn’s hipsters invade upstate New York, artisanal vegan soap in tow.
- From the attic: Non-Expert Eric Feezell explains what to do about your hipster infestation. #tmn
- Jennings is technically 38, yet seems an ageless carbon-copy of the figure he cut for six months on television.
- Everything you wanted to know about porn stars: a six-month study of 10,000 Internet Adult Film Database profiles.
- Passport photos of Einstein, Magritte, Woolf, more.
- By endangering the public to protect itself, the LAPD’s pursuit of Dorner shows the department hasn’t progressed so much, after all.
- Following Friday’s close call, NASA discusses the other orbiting asteroids that threaten Earth. #video
- Data is only as safe as the planet it sits on. Related: Interstellar Hard Drive. #tmn
- New analysis of lunar rocks brought back by Apollo shows the moon once may have contained “native” water.
- Woody Guthrie puts this week’s Monsanto Supreme Court case into perspective.
- How “Harlem Shake” is being monetized through YouTube’s Content ID and pre-roll ads.
- Edith Zimmerman recalls a night at Max Fish, where the man who knew too much changed her life.
- Nadal wins Brazil Open, his first title since the 2012 French Open. #tennis
- TMN’s Clay Risen on the new era of supertall buildings, made possible by engineering advances #architecture
- Wielding a sledgehammer, thieves rob jewelry case at New York’s Four Seasons.
- I’m not going to stop wearing short sleeves because of it. Livestrong tattoo owners consider their ink, post-Lance.
- After 30 years of preserving corpses, the Body Worlds founder faces his own death.