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Headlines for Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Afternoon Edition

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.

China struggles to stop female suicide by pesticide.

Spanish anesthesiologist sentenced to 1,933 years for sharing morphine, as well as Hepatitis C, with patients.

In today’s feature, Andrew Womack gives us the best music from Reagan’s second year in office.

Police from eight states ask MySpace to cross-check members with national sex offender database.

Linkin Park’s frontman and wife deal with a nuclear secret-holding cyber-stalker.

Study finds that cyclists wearing helmets attract more cars.

Paramedic on hand in case of shoulder dislocation at U.S.A. Rock Paper Scissors Tournament.

“To tell the truth, it was a piece of Jewish chutzpah.” TV games celebrate their 40th birthday.

This Saturday, 7 p.m., let’s all pitch in for Andrea Stone.

Morning Edition

IAEA says Iran has begun enriching uranium on a much bigger scale than before.

For a last hurrah, Blair would like to convince Bush to join an international pact to fight global warming.

Bush calls for cuts in vehicle emissions; critics want reductions, not stalling.

Say what you will about his President-ing, George W. Bush can “rather successfully” conduct an orchestra.

Gonzales’s no. 2 resigns, the fourth senior Justice official to quit since the attorney scandal hit.

Nebraska sophomore pays $3000 after illegally downloading 381 songs (’80s ballads and Spice Girls).

The online show “Hometown Baghdad” is popular everywhere except Iraq (watch it here, it’s terrific).

Scientists dissect the “five-second rule.”

No longer content to save lives, doctors must now break into print, preferably with memoirs.

It’s like they talked to someone about what the 19th century looked like over the telephone. Roger Black tears into today’s magazines’ typefaces.

Patricia Cornwell asks judge to stop other writer (who fled the country, fleeing her) from posting defamatory messages on the web.

How mobile phones work “economic magic” in micro-markets.

Pope condemns capitalism and Marxism as “systems that marginalize God.”

French and British complain the most about work; Irish whine the least.

Ireland claims Obama (now, O’Bama) as one of its own.

Notes on the odd hobby of plane spotting in Toronto; notes on the future that never was.

Spielberg and Jackson to share producing duties for three Tintin movies.

Story of a pet lion in London who traveled by Bentley and ate in fine restaurants.

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