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Headlines for Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Mothers from the Texas polygamist compound speak out against authorities and C.P.S.

Related: What happens next for the displaced children.

Creating artificial eggs and sperm from other cells could allow same-sex couples to have their own biological children.

This is how things work in Russia. If the head of the state has a hobby, it will become the hobby of the nation. Dmitri Medvedev encourages yoga.

Attention New York producers, backers, funders: Help float an illuminated Titanic.

Three days left for you to explain why you should be TMN’s next intern.

How and why the U.S. should become solar thermal power’s leader.

Lying experiments suggest the I.R.S. should put an honor code on tax forms.

Go on, RSC, put Hamlet on the Death Star. Why isn’t there more science fiction in theater?

Why some music can amplify a person’s sadness almost unbearably.

Audio: Listening to hurricanes with underwater microphones can help predict what they’ll look like on land.

Explaining the “natural” reasons why we all fall for base rate fallacies, e.g., “false positive rate.”

Wonkette falls out of the Gawker universe.

Morning Edition

In Iraq, car bomb explosions outside restaurants in two cities kill dozens.

Debt collectors end up costing the I.R.S. more than the taxes they recover—to the tune of $37 million.

Your tax questions, answered; why we should abolish taxes.

A.P. photographer Bilal Hussein, held for two years by U.S. military in Iraq under suspicion of aiding insurgents, to be released on Wednesday.

Seismologists predict California is in for a 6.7 earthquake within the next 30 years.

Democrats reach for the Catholic vote: Obama went to Catholic School, Clinton praises the Vatican as “the first carbon-neutral state in the world.”

“Millennials”: Not just cooler than you, but when Catholic, also more devout.

“How do we get the ‘cool’ factor back into the priesthood?” New York Archdiocese faces dwindling seminary numbers.

Researchers say faulty rivets led to the Titanic’s rapid sinking; better construction could have kept the ship afloat longer, in time for help to arrive.

In 1863, Abe Lincoln freed the slaves. But by 1965, slavery will be back!

A brief history of ampersands, including some that don’t look like them at all.

“When [children] get to the age of clear speech and clearness of reason I associate with them, I wouldn’t say play with them. Interview with Waugh gone wrong.

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