Headlines from April 10, 2008

News summary: The Week in China.
In case you didn't know, Nelson Mandela needs permission to visit the U.S., since he's still considered a terrorist.
Llew Hinkes in the Mp3 Digest on the songs you need to rage against pro-torture politics.
Calculating how many people were killed in foreign wars based on how much you paid in taxes.
How algorithms catch amateur Photoshopping in journalism.
Judge awards Heather Mills writing credit on "Eleanor Rigby."
We are not yet able to explain human consciousness, even less articulate self-consciousness as expressed in the reading and writing of poetry.
Fascinating paper about the uniqueness of brains.
Download for the commute: Freakonomics quorum on the progress made by psychology and psychiatry in the last century.
More than 2,000 gather to say goodbye to Norman Mailer.
Story of the day: To maximize ticket profits, Dallas is cutting down on the duration of yellow lights.
China says it has foiled a plot to kidnap athletes, journalists, and tourists at its Olympics.
Dalai Lama embarks on U.S. visit, supports Olympics--"We are not anti-Chinese."
"The Americans will fix everything." Iraqis remember the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime--five years ago this week.
Scientists investigate a way to turn pollution into something useful: plastic.
Little is known about how these particles affect waterways once they pass through laundry drains. Odor-removing detergents might be secretly pollutive.
Johns Hopkins doctors complete the first six-way kidney transplant--donors gave to patients they matched, but didn't know.
Indian baby with craniofacial duplication--two faces--is worshiped as reincarnation of Hindu goddess.
The top 10 unethical human experiments.
Researchers discover a frog that breathes through its skin--without lungs--in Indonesia.
Waxy.org, that prince of links, that king of web research projects, unveils its new design.
In this week's People We Like, an interview with photographer Lucien Samaha.
The "big black dog" problem: People are scared of them, nobody adopts them, and so they're killed at higher rates than other dogs.
Op: Why anyone cares what white people like.