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Headlines for Friday, August 24, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Amnesty publishes proof Sudan is breaking the Darfur arms embargo—most likely with the help of Russia.

Much of the U.S. is currently snorkeling, if not Jet-Skiing, home from work.

Gov. George Wallace’s would-be assassin released from prison after serving 35 years of 53-year term.

Basque separatist group ETA sets off car bomb without the usual advance notice.

Hebrew-English charter school in Florida faces criticism over plan to teach language minus religion; Brooklyn’s Arabic-English school isn’t faring much better.

Unlike in 2000, federal government refuses to curtail immigration raids in months prior to the census.

Could pigeon dung have been behind the Minneapolis bridge’s collapse?

Local raccoons feel the brunt of infighting amongst Salem witches.

Japanese PM meets with son of Indian judge who pardoned his grandfather for war crimes; cousin of former Estonian PM is convicted of genocide.

“Tenpo ni la toki pona li kama suli.” Conlangs expand beyond Star Trek, Tolkien.

Out-of-body experiences as easy as a virtual reality goggles, a rod for poking, and cooperative scientists.

Discount airline Ryanair now charging four-dollar fee for airport check-in.

Do funny signs from around the world ever get old? Probably.

Morning Edition

Flinty intelligence assessment of Iraq’s government, Bush’s government, and Democrats who would withdraw.

Will an op-ed by seven soldiers have more impact than stories penned by generals? (See here for the op-ed.)

Chapter five in Josh Neufeld’s wonderful “A.D.”, the true story in web-comic form of six people who survived Katrina.

William Grimes on Michael Erard’s book on slips of the tongue; see here for all of Erard’s slip-work on TMN, or, um, click here.

For all the buzz in France: Pool of press clippings about playwright Yasmina Reza’s book about Sarkozy.

Journalist Nir Rosen explains fighting in northern Lebanon with plain words.

Rivals circle, wonks worry as Pakistan’s autumn elections approach and Musharraf’s seat looks shaky.

Despite the worst inflation in the world, Zimbabwe also has the best-performing stock market.

Why do classes perform better when girls are present? Simply because they’re there.

Neuroscientist Gary Lynch’s series of articles on showing how memories form.

Pdf: Proposal to create “fantasy journals”—fantasy football, you could say, but with science papers.

Egregious science offenses committed by Hollywood.

The beauty of specimens found on old microscope slides; photographs of what 120 calories look like.

What happens when 826 people listen to the same mp3 at the same time in lower Manhattan.

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