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Headlines for Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Car bombs outside U.N. and government offices in Algiers kill 45, mostly students.

Sleep, attention, and memory: what you didn’t know about “stickyness.”

Wal-Mart panties for teenage girls suggest they accept cash for sleeping around.

Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections. See also: How to feed the hungry by improving your capacity for big words.

Japan is so close to nuclear weapons capacity, Tokyo “could do it, sort of, over a long weekend.”

Japan’s shock magazines no longer shock; see our gallery of some of the original images that did the job.

Chinese bureaucrats do the dye: “Few countries are as averse to gray as China is.”

Can you really do philosophy with clipboards and questionnaires? Battle between visions of contemporary philosophy over the value of research.

Economics theory on what might have happened if the U.S. government had given land to freed slaves.

Ecological theory suggests removing the top predator may actually be worse for the prey.

The remarkable online experience of The Whale Hunt.

Supreme Court rules selling crack doesn’t always have to be punished 100 times as harshly as selling powder cocaine.

Print for the commute home: Man who hates his son’s taste for wrestling becomes drawn to investigating a wrestler’s death.

Morning Edition

“It’s uncommon, to say the least, to find these.” Maine town battles to retrieve a Declaration of Independence found in a deceased resident’s attic.

Former CIA employee denounces waterboarding, vouches for its effectiveness.

Long Island company rents boss-dunking machine for parties.

While traveling in Beijing, Bloomberg OKs MTA fare hike—from a safe distance.

It’s a good time to be a barbecue chef in New York, good enough for six figures.

Although it may be acceptable to pick one’s teeth at a Japanese table, it is not acceptable to lay one’s used chopsticks or toothpick on the common surface.

An Indian restaurant with tea and headstones in equal measure.

Researchers believe Mormons’ monthly fast may stave off heart disease—works for non-believers, too.

Getting friendly with the kind of bacteria that doesn’t cause a massive product recall.

The new pinup calendar: Italian doctors strip down for cancer research.

Hanging next to the sign, in vivid Coast Guard orange, is the last line of defense, a brace of fly swatters. The hunt for a new malaria vaccine.

Video: Fan reactions, clips from Led Zeppelin’s spectacular reunion show in London.

Richard Beymer’s (Benjamin Horne) photos from the final day of shooting Twin Peaks.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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