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Headlines for Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Australia apologizes for 50-year practice of kidnapping Aboriginal children.

Afghanistan to become world’s top marijuana producer (no longer just defensive cover for Taliban fighters).

American teens hear more than 30,000 references to booze and drugs annually via pop music; 20,000 are positive.

Putin’s heir apparent to receive Deep Purple concert as parting gift from Gazprom.

How American Samoa prepared for its Super Tuesday spotlight; how America’s ridiculous caucus rules are, in fact, legal.

How Eli Lilly fell into the spotlight: Lawyer sends corporate secrets to Times reporter Berenson, rather than co-counsel Berenson.

Ladies and gentlemen, and Tony Blair… World leaders gather for Ahmadinejad roast (see also: thermal pictures from a zoo).

Reading the week in ~~fashion~~ Suzy Menkes.

It’s only February, but it seems the headline of the year has been found.

How you see it: a single news story told by three news stations simultaneously.

New technique involving three parents and one baby may prevent mitochondrial disease.

The week’s brilliant inventions include nugget-holding soda cups and smoking ban-friendly mini-cigarettes.

Sometimes a party’s so great, you have to swallow your house key to avoid going home.

Morning Edition

Despite Kennedy, Kerry endorsements, Clinton bags Massachusetts, but she’s still in a virtual tie with Obama.

McCain sees big wins across the nation, though Huckabee, Romney aren’t out of the race.

Romney loses West Virginia, thanks to some old school moves from the McCain and Paul teams.

One more loser from yesterday: the proposal to replace Alcatraz with a global peace center.

Scientific itch-scratching really scratches the itch.

The tale behind the O’Brien/Colbert/Stewart feud, and all of it in one succinct YouTube number.

Matthew Baldwin watches Sophie’s Choice as part of his AFI 100 Project. (See the rest of the project here.)

These stories…reveal something about the eternal and dangerous nature of being female. The adoptions and abortions of four decades ago.

Fiction writers: L Magazine’s Search for Pocket Fiction competition is now taking submissions.

Video: A meeting with an editor: “Maybe it’s not a shark, but it’s a squid, or a pebble, or a policeman.”

At a London concert, Morrissey sports an “Obama-Morrissey” T-shirt.

I recently shaved my 161 day old beard and placed it in a mason jar. Beard for sale.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, dies—believed to have been 91 years old.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Bright Inaugural Day, Washington

The U.S. presidential inauguration in January will be one for the ages. LAUREN FREY concludes her series of election-related verse with a hat tip to Langston Hughes.

DIGEST

Lincoln Logorrhea

In his cabinet choices, as in his home state, our president-elect mirrors our 16th president. Gore Vidal’s historical novel about Lincoln helps to balance the dozens of more rigid bios.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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