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Headlines for Thursday, March 29, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Senate approves the war-spending bill, and Bush renews his pledge to veto.

Maryland becomes first state to kick-off the de facto disbanding of the electoral college.

How to make a 75-year-old person’s brain work like a 35-year-old’s.

How Wal-Mart enforces its “bare-knuckled no-expense-spared investigations of employees who break its ironclad ethics rules.”

Morality is not the right language. The more than 130 million people who shop at Wal-Mart each week, they’d be insulted by that frame.

Op: To slightly extrapolate, most Germans see destroying Israel as no big deal.

Iran dislikes Britain’s attitude, such as raising a “ballyhoo” in the press, and may not release the woman sailor.

Turkey would have preferred Chirac’s going-away present from the E.U. not to depict the defeat of the Ottoman empire.

California to blame for most moral evil in the western U.S.

Speaking of combatting evil: Dell to begin shipping Linux-equipped consumer machines.

In the information age, only a chump commutes to work in the city. And only a complete idiot actually lives in one.

Moral crime of painting Thailand’s king earns 10 years in prison.

Video: Nothing evil about otters holding hands. (Though probably something wrong with Karl Rove rapping.)

Video selections from This American Life’s second episode.

Sanjaya’s advancement in American Idol as a precursor to the End Times.

Damage to space shuttle means NASA astronaut may unexpectedly set a new record for longest period spent in space.

Armchair semiotics as new Harry Potter cover revealed.

Morning Edition

Bush bullies back on Iraq, and Pelosi turns on him for picking a fight (Reid, meanwhile, keeps it real).

New York D.A. Arthur Branch contemplates a run for president.

Iran makes the captured British troops “confess” on TV.

Zimbabwe undone: Loyalists turning disloyal, activists abducted and beaten, Mugabe jets to Tanzania to fight for his future.

White House sniffles after Saudi King doesn’t RSVP to dinner invitation.

Fascinating breakdown of Russia’s reconsideration of its nuclear friendliness with Iran.

WHO says circumcision should be added to tools battling HIV, especially in southern Africa.

Instances where future Nobel prize winners had their research rejected by journals.

Pompidou architect Richard Rogers wins Pritzker Prize.

The only warmth in my life is the heated toilet seat. Finalists in salaryman poetry contest reflect lonely life in Japan.

Seven questions answered about Japan’s “sex slave” problem.

One in 30 people have fallen in love on a bus.

Lovely spring has come to New York, and Thoth can sing again in the Angel Tunnel.

Should you forget: August Wilson’s plays are without equal in our time. And though not for Hedley, a king’s house.

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