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Headlines for Friday, February 29, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Jolie: What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made [in Iraq].

Turkey yanks troops after eight-day fight with Kurdish guerillas—but not because the U.S. said so.

Clinton’s new ad: It’s three a.m., your children are safe and sound—but not for long if you vote for Obama.

Obama’s middle name: the H-word only supporters are allowed to say.

Hey, Americans! Danes! Estonians! Kosovo thanks you!

Nicole Pasulka looks back on the month in beef news; Meave Gallagher takes a video tour through Castro’s rise.

Idiom shortage leaves nation all sewed up in horse pies.

Print for the commute: Social networks are like the eye, or, biology and Facebook.

Finding where Tocqueville’s thoughts on poetry and the American jury system intersect.

Study finds native French speakers don’t agree on the genders of French nouns.

An outsider’s view of touring through Montana.

PDF: “Human Terrain Mapping” in the March/April Military Review.

Researchers believe that they have identified the cognitive neural substrate of jazz improvisation.

What happens when you play “The Ultimate Game” with chimps.

People experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be. Expectations can change the way wine tastes, alter the effectiveness of medication.

Alter your expectations: Seattle’s controversial new landmark: a Denny’s.

Twenty-nine leap facts for February 29th; U.K. leap-year babies; three siblings born on leap year day, in separate years.

Care to make it interesting: Coudal.com and a bunch of other sites want to buy kids books when you gamble on ToB novels.

Morning Edition

An “exemplary” soldier, Prince Harry has been fighting “Terry Taliban” in Afghanistan.

An Australian magazine is under fire for leaking the news about Harry; now Harry’s been withdrawn from combat.

Shipwrecked fisherman survives a 12-hour swim off the coast of Australia.

The movement from one “tradition” to another may even suggest a kind of promiscuity—a faithless pursuit of faith.

U.S. prison numbers at an all-time high—more than one in 100 adults are behind bars.

Voter turnout at its highest in 40 years—officials are concerned they’ll need more machines, workers in November.

“Has turnout declined? It all depends on your reference point.” Voting numbers don’t lie, nor do they parse easily.

Donations of used tea bags become recycled tea-bag art.

Near the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault received its first shipment containing millions of seeds and sprouts.

Germany has a new celebrity polar bear.

It’s Leap Day, and if this country were heading in the right direction, today would be Pizza Party U.S.A.; 29 more ways to celebrate.

Tony Robbins, Ja Rule, and other well-known Leaplings—people born on Feb. 29. (more here)

A comprehensive list of obsolete skills—“list making” isn’t on there.

Jacques Chirac studied his face anxiously in the mirror. Political slash-fiction.

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