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Headlines for Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Tentative cease-fire in Tripoli; U.N. evacuates non-combatants from refugee camps.

Bad if true: U.S. military official claims Iran is prepping al Qaeda for an all-out war this summer.

Chinese toothpaste made with potentially deadly glycol—instead of harmless glycerin—blamed for 51 deaths in Central America.

Arizona’s law denying bail for suspected illegal immigrants appealed on grounds of unconstitutionality.

By 1921 American eugenicists had so firmly implanted fears of racial pollution through sex that 15 states had passed laws permitting involuntary eugenic sterilization. The etymology of “white trash.”

St. Petersburg Times editor finds teaching at a historically black college disappointing, to say the least.

Study finds repeating yourself is just as good as being right.

Study finds repeating yourself is just as good as being right.

Game theory for travelers and prisoners; game theory for blog critics.

When food critics and food ethics collide.

Research shows that you can look like a Bob—or at least not look like a Tim.

Up to 10,000 people are expected to descend on Penn State’s Beaver Stadium to pick their way through 62 tons of student detritus.

A tribute to gyros, Chicago’s “most intense fast food eating experience.”

How fava beans nearly killed a vegetarian.

How to make an ear.

Morning Edition

The main points of the new immigration bill, what’s good about it, what’s bad, and who says.

How new legislation over immigration divided one Texas town.

British prosecutors to charge an ex-KGB officer with Litvinenko’s poisoning murder.

Gasoline prices in the U.S. hit an all-time, inflation-adjusted high.

In the past four years, industrial carbon dioxide emissions have been growing at over triple the rate during the ’90s.

In the lower Mississippi, fish have been dying from a cause as yet undetermined. E.B. White on Rachel Carson, 1964.

Nineteen states have passed laws allowing parents of stillborn babies to receive birth certificates—instead of only death certificates.

Some new doctors say they’ll practice abortion not just out of compassion, but in defiance.

“It’s great for people who otherwise might have sat around all night waiting to see a moonbow.” Astronomers predict appearance of elusive “moonbows,” save poets time.

Online music lyrics sit in a pit of many snakes and one 30-page style guide.

New Yorkers who complain about the noise won’t go to their houses in Connecticut, where the pool filters are too loud.

“It feels really natural. I’ll tell you what, from an exposure point of view it’s been incredible.” David Iglesias’s star is born.

TODAY’S FEATURE

A Point-by-Point Evaluation of My Build-a-Bear Workshop Experience

If you could have any bear in the world—what would it look like? A mall visit poses tempting challenges, as FORTUNATO SALAZAR constructs an ursine fantasy.

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City of Refuge

In his new novel, Tom Piazza vividly describes the few days before and after Hurricane Katrina wrought mayhem on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Non-Expert Rosecrans Baldwin finishes the lyrics that Mr. Simon left behind.

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