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Friday, July 30, 2010

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Headlines for Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Map of ties between Pakistan’s spies and militants perhaps “the bluntest American warning” to Pakistan since Sept. 11.

McCain scolded for being open to taxes; Obama razzed for proclaiming he’s “a symbol” of America’s best traditions.

Long his party’s presumptive nominee, Obama is now becoming its presumptuous nominee.

Print for the commute: The economic paradoxes of contemporary art.

Why you no longer need to worry about paper vs. plastic, or running the A/C in your car.

Explaining why “the user experience of driving a car is often so shitty.”

Print for the commute: Charles Van Doren’s personal account of the Quiz Show scandal, and his life since.

Once I find a way of making men give birth, or at least lactate, I’ll devote myself to abolishing the need for sleep.

Ten more weird and bizarre drinks from Japan.

Who needs brass goggles when you can have wall size projector screens in bucky domes? The Eamespunk Manifesto.

Ode to a favorite cocktail: “The Manhattan encourages modifications, riffs, virtuoso performances.”

Beware: Six vacation photos that can kill.

Morning Edition

For four days, McCain’s camp has attacked Obama for an alleged soldier snub; for four days, they’ve had no evidence of it.

In New York, MetroCard machines continue to deny credit, debit cards, cause mayhem for a second straight day.

Olympic Committe lifts ban, will allow two Iraqi atheletes to compete in Beijing.

Sen. Ted Stevens indicted on felony charges of failing to disclose gifts, including home renovations, furnishings, and a Land Rover.

Deindustrialisation in U.S. cities has the affluent moving to city centers, trading the outskirts to the less fortunate.

Pariahs in the Pyrenees: the last untouchables in Europe.

Even as we rip down walls, we must build bridges. When writing about China, writing in clichés still has value.

Video: Give us today our daily terror.

Born in the same year, George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh were more similar than their writing would have you think.

Orwell’s diary entries will be published, 70 years to the day after he wrote them, as a blog.

“It makes me feel free” From bootleggers to world-champion presidential advisers, Senegal is mad for Scrabble.

Following the lawsuit that shut down Scrabulous on Facebook, hackers disable Hasbro’s official version of the game.

“I Made Tea” by Joe Davis—a telescopic story.

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