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Headlines for Friday, February 22, 2008

Afternoon Edition

We love “Making Book 2008”: Lay down a little money on the Tournament of Books and you (plus the matching companies) are buying books for kids.

Welsh police refute “death cult,” “online shrine” theories about 17 young people killing themselves in a year.

PowerPoint presentation answers all of the universe’s questions.

Fascinating confessions of a “language polisher” for China’s propaganda bureau.

Stallone’s unsmiling and serious-looking style makes him look like a lunatic. New Rambo unpopular with Myanmar chiefs.

Feeling ill, blue, or in need of a hot toddy? TMN’s picks for movies to curl up with.

Video: Rip Torn bashes in Norman Mailer’s head with a hammer. (Explainer.)

Jad Abumrad, host of the magnificent Radio Lab, edits today’s Video Digest at TMN with his favorite music for films.

Test finds it’s tough pegging college students’ musical tastes to their personality characteristics.

Italian scientist discovers the G-spot, develops an ultrasound test to look for it; Italian scientists unveil robot that can make coffee.

Germany puts science, and a focus on international relations, at the top of its economic agenda.

Gallery of images from the International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest.

“There is no meal without meat.” Namibia is a vegetarian’s hell and an anemic’s paradise.

Story of infiltrating Seattle’s 9/11 conspiracy crowd.

Our new favorite book title: How to Avoid Huge Ships. See also: Obsolete skills for the 21st century.

Morning Edition

Targeting Kurdish rebels, Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, promise to return home “in the shortest time possible.”

Behind-the-scenes on “The McCain Article” in the Times; reporters are ready to field your flak.

Election committee informs McCain he can’t withdraw from the public financing system he helped create.

“We didn’t raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now.” Clinton supporters question their candidate’s spending.

In Belgrade, demonstrations over Kosovo’s independence turn violent as protesters attack, set fire to the U.S. embassy.

From allegations the firm failed to protect employees sexually assaulted by co-workers to findings that it charged $45 per can of soda… How war contractors in Iraq became profiteers.

The world of art thievery, as told by a former dealer.

Celebrities, 700 patrons require Hepatitis A vaccines after exposure in a West Village bar.

Stray cockroach in Turkmenistan gets 30 people fired.

Bob Geldof, Bush travel Africa, draw crowds, goodwill.

Monochromatic New Yorkers: The girl who only wore turquoise switched to gray; we thought it was teal.

Video: On Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius interviews Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie.

British parents rank their own childhood bedtime stories far above Harry Potter.

Celebrity World War I draft cards, from Al Capone to Duncan Hines.

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