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Headlines for Monday, October 29, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Analysis of bloggers’ responses to White House’s merely semi-secret request for bunker-busters perhaps bound for Iran.

Print for tonight’s commute: The secret history of the impending war with Iran that the White House doesn’t want you to know.

Alert, stereotypical boomers: restless David Brooks has sired the “Tip of Your Tongue” decade.

Just when the U.K. slips the stereotype, France signs on for “patriotically bellicose but still America’s big fan.”

Comic: The new gay stereotype is Mr. Family Values.

From TAL’s “Mapping” episode, a Raleigh cartographer’s odd maps of his neighborhood, e.g., where the power lines are.

Former Beavis & Butthead writer says the only acceptable way to own a Ramones T-shirt is to have earned it.

Identical twins earn reunion after 35 years of separation due to secret social experiment.

Thirty illnesses, sorted according to whether or not you can eat the victims.

Afternoon games: The tall stump, extreme hangman.

Extreme, middling, and everyday figures to expect in this week’s news: Madrid bombers, IMF boss, Nepal’s king.

Democracy stirs while the king sleeps in the South Pacific’s last monarchy, Tonga.

PDF study of why the trend for preferring sons to daughters is reversing in South Korea.

Video in case you missed it: Children engineers wreck havoc with railroad.

Morning Edition

Iran reacts to U.S. sanctions by shifting trade to the East—analysts says the move likely will buffer them against economic turmoil.

“You leave home and it’s safer here than it is at home.” In Iraq, California soldiers try to keep tabs on their families.

Running out of willing diplomats for Iraq, State Dept. decides to draft a few good bureaucrats.

Men arrested for blackmailing the British royal family with sex, lies, videotape. Related: Royal scandals down the years.

A survey of English cuisine’s wonders: black pudding, tripe, and wild blackberry pie (worse than it sounds).

From 2005: British ice cream maker introduces black pudding flavor.

Why the U.S. inaction in Darfur? Bush’s reticence to invade another Muslim country, for starters.

Japanese drivers have fallen in love with Hummers, but Tokyo’s narrow streets can’t accommodate the seven-foot-wide vehicle.

“You notice Steven Spielberg cut this boring stuff out of ‘Indiana Jones.’” Profile of a meteorite hunter who’s in it for the treasure, not the science.

Photos: Jennifer Loeber takes pictures of nude Brooklynites—their Red Hooks, Cobble Hills, and all. (NSFW)

Violent babies and toddlers simply lack people skills.

You know all those right-wing emails your dad keeps sending you? MyRightWingDad.net does.

Audio: Looking for ghosts in a New Orleans cemetery where the dead aren’t six feet under—they’re more like six inches.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The Hot ______ of the Summer

In times of respite, the mind settles, focusing on what’s really relevant. Here are the TMN READERS’ AND WRITERS’ hot picks: the jam that fueled parties all summer long, the show we turned down the A/C to hear, and more.

DIGEST

King’s Lead Hat

David Byrne’s first collaboration with Brian Eno in 27 years: Eno calls it “electronic gospel”; we call it the sound of studio perfection.

Secret Service

Give Me a Sign

Margaret Mason reports from 2004’s Democratic National Convention on giant paper cuts, political souvenirs, and how all those signs get together.

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