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Headlines for Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Evening Edition

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns, hopefully to spend more time with the wife.

Nader considers a run, sizes up the competition.

Israel asks whether organ donors deserve to cut in line when it’s transplant time.

“I can cure AIDS and I will.” Gambian president personally treating AIDS patients with green herbs, yellow liquids, and no anti-retrovirals.

Thieves steal hormones and suddenly a new batch of cows are overproducing.

Nine months after its World Cup victories, Germany experiences a minor baby boom.

Old, but still vaguely useful (Just like our urban etiquette guide.): The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions (Part I).

Do not eat at Momofuku Ssam Bar tonight, everyone’s hungover.

Chef behind Kobe Club having a rough time of it, too.

Bigfoot’s foot not found in Virginia landfill. (Though for some the hunt continues.)

Washington was a whiskey man.

Afternoon Edition

Merck will cease pushing states to mandate vaccination for cervical cancer—not due to pressure from outside groups, but because ultimately it’s bad for business.

Was Eva Braun evil or just a brickhouse? Related: Sugar packets with holocaust jokes are a terrible idea.

“Find the Illegal Immigrant” game at NYU may not exactly be the Stanford Prison Experiment, but the winner gets a gift certificate.

Violence, drugs pervade magazine subscription crews.

Foreign doctors from Germany, Japan, and France also visited the museum, which sits at the end of a decrepit street where many taxis fear to go. A visit to the brain museum.

In today’s Mp3 Digest, Llewellyn Hinkes praises guitars triple-necked and greater.

Putting the Iraq war into perspective: Longer than 45 minutes, less than 355 years.

How does salmonella get into a cooked product? Ewwww.

A writer traces her family’s roots through its recipe for spaghetti sauce.

Excellent interview with Thurston Moore, who has rejuvenated his 25-year-old record label, and is still way more up on music than you.

Tyler Brule’s lustrous new magazine: Monocle.

Morning Edition

Blair announces reduction of British troops in Iraq—the 22-month pullout, however, is more protracted than many expected.

Three Iraqi policemen, in the span of a few hours, went from being rape suspects to distinguished officers in the eyes of the Shiite-led government.

The security crackdown in Iraq continues; but should forces enter Sadr City, and potentially roll back the political gains made there?

Op: For the first time since Ike, we have a one-name candidate—Hillary.

The Onion: “Giuliani to Run for President of 9/11.”

“You just go over for coffee, and before you know it, their children are godparents to your grandchildren.” Brooklyn tenants remember how a project became a community.

Audit shows Justice Dept.’s terrorism statistics are off the mark, and often include drug and fraud cases.

The U.S. rates no. 23 on a map of “subjective well being.”

Mexican theme park offers simulated migrant crossing experience.

Early, failed music downloading devices.

Rock stars worship Federer too: Henry Rollins, Stephen Malkmus.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Bright Inaugural Day, Washington

The U.S. presidential inauguration in January will be one for the ages. LAUREN FREY concludes her series of election-related verse with a hat tip to Langston Hughes.

DIGEST

Lincoln Logorrhea

In his cabinet choices, as in his home state, our president-elect mirrors our 16th president. Gore Vidal’s historical novel about Lincoln helps to balance the dozens of more rigid bios.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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