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Headlines for Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Boston Marathon waives qualifying factors for those with deep pockets for charity.

The New York governor’s office adjusts to its new, blind occupant—from the lack of a teleprompter to Paterson’s Batphone.

France dispatches smiling officials to mollify China post-Olympic parade disaster.

With more arms on the way to Zimbabwe, notes on news about China’s growing role in Africa.

Australia is now bigger; Australia doesn’t tolerate handheld laser pointers.

Op: Congratulations, journalists, on your cooler-than-you attitudes about comic conventions.

Obama wasn’t condescending to working-class rural Pennsylvanians; he was pandering to wealthy urban San Franciscans.

Video: Bill Clinton’s message to Pennsylvania voters.

Il Cavaliere—as Berlusconi is known—has never managed to shake off the stigma among his European counterparts of being a leader who is not to be taken seriously.

A handy chart to keep up with your favorite politican’s history of drug use.

The show has resurrected the potential for scripted dramas to be effective social satire. How Gossip Girl is changing television, for everyone, forever.

Hello Kitty will be “modeling” the entire Dior collection in next month’s issue of Japanese Vogue.

Because, Men’s Vogue, why not: skulls projected on trees.

Video: Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett.

Morning Edition

F.D.A. finds link between contaminated blood thinner from China and 81 deaths in the U.S.

The life expectancy for U.S. women has reversed for the first time since 1918—smoking, obesity are the likely culprits.

The voters who will decide the 2008 election: working-class males, young people, rural Americans, and Hispanics.

Victory in Pennsylvania is in the eye of the beholder—superdelegates will lose faith in Clinton unless she wins, and wins big.

Clinton’s campaign is in heavy debt, to the tune of $10 million—does she really need that $5 coffee?

Political cartoonists try their hand at the next president: McCain’s a badger, Clinton’s got hips and hair, Obama’s cool.

Audio: Life as a six-foot-three woman.

The world’s upcoming food crises, in list form.

Best and worst: pop culture high schools; Hollywood endings.

Life imitates The Good Life: U.S. suburbanites are turning their yards into sustenance.

Video: Amy Sedaris cooks with bong water, Martha Stewart.

The “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy,” out of print since the ’60s, will find new life online.

Priest attached to party balloons floats away, still missing off the coast of Brazil.

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