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Headlines for Friday, February 8, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Kenya rivals agree to humanitarian aid, not to a power-sharing government.

Op: The argument for Obama’s electability.

Emerging economies are better at adopting new technologies than at putting them into widespread use.

Study finds whichever gender rules society is also the more competitive.

Conservationists mull when to help non-endangered marine mammals.

Print for the commute: She believes that the dysfunctions of neural centers led to the slaughter of countless innocent people.

Sugar dust blamed for Georgia refinery explosion that has left six workers missing.

Winners of sexual-health poetry competition; map of fetishes.

Best of Brit tabloids: King Henry VII caught on cameraphone; 500-lb anti-gambling shoes.

Pictures from Vanity Fair’s remake of Hitchcock stills, with Seth Rogen fleeing an airplane.

Physicist submits “optimal boarding method for airline passengers” to Journal of Air Transportation Management.

McSwonion? General life advice as provided by the Stage Directions to Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Eric Feezell’s advice on using “begs the question.” See also: Meave Gallagher stakes turf on Super Tuesday mania.

College football adopts NFL’s rule that at least one minority candidate must be interviewed for any open coaching position.

Morning Edition

Romney’s campaign shined a light on the Mormon Church—and the Church learned there’s a lot of silent anti-Mormonism in the U.S.

Racism should not be tolerated and this is not the first time British sportsmen have been racially abused in Spain.

The writers’ strike may be ending, with pens in hands as early as Monday—Michael Eisner says it’s so.

FBI raids in New York and Sicily result in arrests of more than 60 members of the Gambino crime family.

It was Monday night on the Strip, and John Devaney was giving a party for himself and fellow connoisseurs of risk who have seen their hot hands go cold.

A pet owner wonders: How much is too much to save the life of her beloved cat?

Hoping to win the support of Sunnis in Iraq, al Qaeda shifts to “softer tactics,” which means not killing Sunni civilians.

Actually, I think this might be an al Qaeda recruitment film. Charlie Brooker on MTV’s My Super Sweet Sixteen.

Reader mail: Do Guilfoile and Warner support Obama only because he’s the anti-Hillary; and: Can we have a president my age?

French designer envisions giant, whale-shaped flying hotel for tourists.

Audio: Clorox introduces a new, green brand—at a price that undercuts the other eco-friendly products on the shelves.

Chinese environmentalists protest throwaway chopsticks, promote a BYOC campaign.

About a man with one of the worst cases of sleep apnea in Britain—he slept only 14 minutes a night.

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