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Headlines for Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Afternoon Edition

National Geographic story hunts for Persia’s life-loving roots in Iran’s intolerant present.

Russian Times online readers answer questions about Russia and Georgia.

Op: It will take skill and patience to get Russia to a soft landing, and Moscow’s record at soft landings is not good.

McCain (and Obama to some degree) talk one way about the energy crisis and fundamentally act another.

Latitude lacks in McCain’s anti-choice actions, even if his statements are muddled.

Independent fact-checkers work to quell “conservative echo-chamber” surrounding anti-Obama book; author says they’re “nit-picking.”

Millions relieved after Reverend Wright’s new upcoming book is revealed not to exist.

It’ll be the kids growing up with an Obama presidency who could change race politics forever.

Post-Hillary, seven Democratic women to watch.

The secret to the perfect hair that doesn’t seem to move is horse cartilage. Quasi-science facts about synchronized swimming.

What contemporary China really looks like: Picture China.

Photos of blue screens of death from Beijing’s opening ceremonies.

British journalist roughed up by Beijing police at pro-Tibet protest in formerly mistranslated “Racist Park.”

Guide to pirating the Olympics, then and now.

Even if it means “panda porn,” China wants finicky pandas to mate more.

Morning Edition

Russian tanks still patrol the town of Gori, in Georgia, where bombs fell well beyond the ceasefire.

Gorbachev: By declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its “national interest,” the U.S. made a serious blunder.

Op: Though no one wants a nuclear Iran, China and Russia benefit from sanctions against Tehran—selling arms, filling gaps left by European firms.

Russian youth feel the power of the Western media, join Chinese counterparts in unconventional warfare on the web.

China and America’s posturing, ability to blow up satellites, threatens the technological revolution.

Mark Penn…urged the New York senator’s campaign to paint Barack Obama as “fundamentally” foreign.

With new medal wins, Michael Phelps, “The King of Chlorine,” becomes the most decorated Olympian of all time.

Video: U.S. engineers explain how flow research will help swimmers get even faster.

One non-carbonated beverage’s attempt to break into the SoBe/Snapple/VitaminWater market.

China’s looming crisis: millions of overpressurized, hypereducated children in a nation that can’t fulfill their expectations.

The hardships of Yale alums as they struggle with insecurity in the face of their privileges.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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