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Headlines for Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Iran to release the one woman from the 15 captured British sailors.

Philippine daycare hostage situation peacefully resolved before lunch.

Women from Pakistani madrasa abduct alleged brothel owner and family.

There’s a Geico gaming tent and a Neutrogena spa, and the Trojan booth offers pina-colada-scented oxygen you can inhale through a tube. Marketers as giddy as students about Spring Break.

World’s tallest man, and hero to dolphins everywhere, gets married; “Short Man Syndrome” proved a myth.

Camille Paglia says Hillary should brush up on her military history.

Today in the Tournament of Books, McCarthy battles Zombie Pynchon, and Andrew Womack battles the flu.

Relationships among Scientific Paradigms graphically represented.

Disney re-considers re-releasing long-buried Song of the South.

Among the toys made in the ’60s, the most valuable in the museum’s collection is the “Liberate Taiwan” game. A brief history of China’s toys.

In today’s Mp3 Digest, Llewellyn Hinkes wants the songs the whole world hasn’t sung.

At half its former size, New Orleans’s homeless population has doubled since Katrina.

San Francisco installs a citywide ban on plastic bags.

Michael Jackson plans 50-foot robot to roam Las Vegas desert sands shooting laser beams from its eyes.

Morning Edition

Talks stall in Britain-Iran naval dispute; Blair says he’s willing to escalate.

British satellite images show sailors were inside Iraqi waters when captured.

In northern Iraq, two bomb-laden trucks—one lured a crowd by selling wheat—killed at least 63 people.

Angered by the bombings, Shiite militants, police officers rampage Sunni neighborhoods, murdering dozens.

“It’s a way to get home, and he’s told us he just wants to get home.” David Hicks’s guilty plea may have been more of a bargain than admission.

In Brooklyn, drug dealer shoots police officer in the ankle, apologizes.

Wal-Mart chief says New York isn’t worth the effort.

Eating beef while pregnant can sink baby’s sperm count; kickboxing can damage hormone production.

For the second time in two weeks, Canas bests Federer—whose foot injury may have impeded his ability to levitate.

New federal regulations could force winemakers to print labels with every additive, including “dissolved oxygen” and copper.

New reports call for much more frequent MRIs for women with breast cancer or who are considered at high risk.

So, exactly how does feminism cause cancer? And: The E.R.A. is alive and well in five state legislatures. (And here it is.)

The Reader’s shortcomings prove that whatever stage of development it represents, it is not to literature what the iPod is to music. Reviewing Sony’s e-book reader.

How do horticulturists know when the cherry blossoms will bloom?

TODAY’S FEATURE

Ladies First

Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week ERIC FEEZELL solves the origins of “Mrs.,” and presents a new nomenclature to fill the gender gap, once and for all.

DIGEST

Video Digest

May 16 | The government is watching you right now. Don’t believe it? Meave Gallagher has the video to p…

» Mp3 Digest, May 14
» Book Digest, May 12

PURE GIBBERISH

My Father Speaks Another Language

Sarah Hepola listens, her mother translates.

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ONE YEAR AGO

Suicide bomber kills himself and 25 others in Pakistani restaurant with anti-Taliban ties. (See the Washington Post’s slideshow.)

At least 13 killed by Hamas-Fatah fighting in Gaza.

Rev. Jerry Falwell dead at 73 from heart attack.

U.S.-Iranian dual-national director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East program arrested in Iran for “crimes against national security.”

Chrysler’s new owner will soon face the question of what to do with the $18 billion—that’s $1,500 a car—owed to employees in health insurance and pensions.

» Headlines May. 15, 2007

FIVE YEARS AGO

New York’s currently: enjoying a long spring

Announcement forecast: the U.K. is not ready for the Euro.

Manhattan judge rules transit fare hikes unfair.

Doctor catchs SARS, returns home and infects relatives, then beats the disease after it kills his father, mother, and wife, then is arrested.

A gallery of Saddam Hussein’s fantasy art collection.

» Headlines May. 15, 2003