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Headlines for Friday, July 25, 2008

Weekend Edition

Ed. note: As you can see, we’re trying something new for Friday afternoons.

The amount of politically correct professors in each discipline.

How making decisions exhausts your brain.

Kyoto protocol’s emphasis on pollution control doesn’t address the investment required to make clean energy viable

Reporter David Carr remembers his many dark years by interviewing family and friends.

Les Paul’s time has been pretty much any decade since the 1920s.

Pitchfork’s “Overlooked Records 2008.”

Video: Tarantino’s Mind.

How the uncanny similarity of joy and despair’s expressions appealed to Darwin.

Criminologists investigate the causes of drastic crime increases in mid-sized cities like Memphis, sparking controversy with what they find.

North by Northwest isn’t a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it’s about what happens to his suit.

Loads of unecessary knowledge, and loads of wonderful links.

How to cook the world’s greatest snack food: Cincinnati chili.

Morning Edition

American embassy dusts off, expands program to help U.S.-employed Iraqis obtain visas, citizenship.

Obama in Berlin: The police estimated that over 200,000 people…thronged the boulevard that stretches between the Prussian Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate.

Brooks: Obama has one speech; he delivered it to cheers in Europe, but back home the message is getting tired.

Another possibility is that books per se are not especially interesting. An exploration of possible reasons for “reader’s block.”

Young Jeezy exhausts every rhyme possibility except “Cliff Clavin.”

I must insist, from now on, that I am sent a proof of every review I do, in pdf format, so I can check it for fuck-ups.

Deciding the New Orleans food scene has rebounded, The Times-Picayune resurrects its critiques.

Tougher than getting a same-sex marriage: getting a same-sex divorce.

McCain may announce a running mate before the Olympics, when people are still looking for something to pay attention to.

Citing corruption, Iraq disbanded its Olympic committee last month; it now appears unlikely Iraqi athletes will be allowed to compete.

Scientists reveal origins of aurora borealis: magnetic explosions between the Earth and moon.

Video: The Muppets have arrived on the internet—finally.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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