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Headlines for Friday, April 4, 2008

Afternoon Edition

In case you haven’t met al Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi: a primer.

Bush commits to making next president send more troops to Afghanistan.

Behind closed doors in Bucharest, Germany pushes a plan for NATO’s withdrawl from Afghanistan.

Photos: Afghanistan’s Olympic athletes, including their only female competitor.

A Video Digest FAQ for boycotting this summer’s Olympics, by Meave Gallagher.

Can it really turn “everything” into ashes, or even “just” a sea of flames? What would happen if North Korea nuked South Korea?

Saragossa Manuscript—the film that Jerry Garcia saved, and Scorcese and Coppola love—to be shown next week in New York.

Op: It’s not a good time to be an art critic. Much of what’s written is…weak and descriptive to no purpose. Or at the other extreme it is pure jargon, laughable if read aloud to the uninitiated.

Collaborative dry-erase board masterpieces.

Someone asked Rupert Smith if he wanted to write porn, and he said, why not.

Computers not only keep track of money, they make spending it easier. What life was supposed to be like in 2008.

Multiple cases where a spellchecker swaps “infuriation” for “information.”

Red Bull takes a Polish children’s charity to court, charity milks it for all it’s worth.

Videos: Championship pen spinning; architecture soundtracked by Coltrane.

Morning Edition

Clinton’s support continues to erode; she led Obama by 87 superdelegates in February—now she leads by 30.

Zimbabwe on tenterhooks: opposition party offices raided, foreign journalists arrested.

Pope Benny will be the first to visit a U.S. synagogue.

Clearly, I don’t think anybody in this city is shocked about what consenting adults do. Clearly, London’s mayor—revealed to have five children by three women—is incorrect.

F.A.A. inspectors testify that attempts to report Southwest Airlines’ missed safety checks to superiors ended in harassment, punishment.

Without warning, Southwest partner ATA Airlines ceases operations, grounds all flights—stranding travelers at airports.

“It’s true that computer programmers use an awful lot of them.” France debates the fate of the semicolon.

College Board cites under-enrollment, announces it will cut advanced Computer Science AP classes.

Latest nationwide test results show gains in writing skills for U.S. students.

“To get this past this image that we’re just middlebrow, you know, a magazine that your grandparents get, or something, that’s the challenge.”

Not your parents’ garage sale: creative advertising for the crap on your lawn.

Photoshop contest: vintage ads for modern products.

Labor-saving devices for people averse to exercise are a recurring theme. Visiting Geneva’s International Exhibit of Inventions.

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