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Headlines for Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Furious at its delayed removal from “terror list,” North Korea suspends dismantling of nuclear program.

Blogging from inside the “Hillary suite,” i.e., “ground zero for the still-not-totally-over-it.”

The media loves to talk about a possible rift in the convention, but how many militant Hill-ites are there?

“I don’t care about his beer, I care about his intelligence.” Rednecks for Obama.

Considering the riddle of Caucasian ethnicities when there are 40 indigenous tongues spoken in the region.

Did Rice’s intimate knowledge of Russian society and politics fail her during the Georgian conflict?

Rice criticizes Israel after report says Jewish settlement construction has doubled.

The full story on Shai Agassi’s plan to put Israelis into electric cars.

“When you meet a Muslim who says he’s an independent, it means he used to be a Republican.” It’s a strange time to be an American Muslim.

Full explanation of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni’s various marriages and affairs.

Print for the commute: Reconstructing the Pentagon’s decision-making process to shoot down a satellite.

The attractions of (neuro)anatomy in one of London’s biggest strip clubs.

How neuroscience explains spirituality and out-of-body experiences.

Large collection of graphed networks.

Such a conceptual work can exist simultaneously in two separate realms. Artist Cai Guo-Qiang responds to Olympics fireworks controversy.

The book to read before going to business school.

Morning Edition

“Thanks for giving us Stalin.” On the Georgian-turned-Russian dictator, and how Putin is resuming his work.

Dipping world economy forces Russians to kick their milk habit, Brazilians to stay at home.

Bay Area zoning laws and the technical illegality of lemonade stands pits city hall against city youngsters.

Photos: The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when desperation switched to violence.

Mercifully they realize I’ve no time to give autographs, and so they ask only the cast members. Woody Allen’s diary from the set of Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Op: Catcher in the Rye is no longer the book it was—why are we still teaching it?

In the Alps, a melting glacier reveals neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman, Middle Age artifacts.

A nice collection of 1970s packaging.

Yep, I actually clipped and kept the Star Wars comic strip from the newspapers. I had thought I’d lost them until I…found this old yellowed envelope.

An art-loving family ponders whose paintings—Rothko, Warhol, Hockney?—to represent in tiles on their bathroom wall.

For followers of the Feltron Annual Reports, introducing Daytum, where you can chart the minutiae of your life.

Lynch delved deep into his box of oddities for this baffling minute of mind-wrongs. Cool commercials by movie directors.

Video: Hands on a Hard Body, the must-see documentary about a group of people who compete to win a mini-truck.

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