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Headlines for Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Print for the commute: Recognizing environmental problems in China means also acknowledging China’s doing some things right.

China arrests grieving parents at public protest of shoddy school construction; parents press on.

Measuring high oil prices’ potential impact on the sushi trade.

While discussing the food crisis, politicians eat a menu of more modest ingredients than in previous years.

The price of beer around the world.

Cheney doesn’t win points calling West Virginians in-breds.

Oddly titillating: phone details on how Obama and Hillary contact each other.

Perceiving sarcasm is a mental ability you can lose.

John Grisham learned everything he needed to know about foreshadowing on writerszone.com.

“Less is more.” Jim Davis admits that some “Garfield Minus Garfield” strips work better than his originals (see strips here).

New play follows movie star Hedy Lamarr’s role as an inventor of radio signal technology.

“Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion.” Brad Pitt to design hotel in Dubai, affordable homes in New Orleans.

Statue of Liberty soon to gain a rival on the shores of Mumbai, celebrating deified guerilla king Shivaji.

Audio: Radio Lab’s Jad Abumrad pairs more classical musicians with rock and electronic acts (see also, Abumrad’s favorite movie music).

Morning Edition

As the Democratic contest draws to a close, superdelegates no longer fear their phones.

Graphic: Superdelegates take a mighty swing to Obama; a catalog of superdelegates, their endorsements.

Republican denied communion for endorsing Obama; priest asked to step down for mocking Clinton.

Photos of the Large Hadron Particle Collider, built to reproduce the conditions produced by the Big Bang.

German nursing homes use replicas of bus stops to find wandering Alzheimer’s patients.

Cloth wipes meant to kill MRSA in hospitals actually spread it, again proving the might of the superbug.

Designer of Pringles tube is buried in one; Kurt Cobain’s ashes possibly stolen.

Who needs rice when you have millet? Alternatives to consider during a global rice shortage.

For sale: One vilified vehicle division. Hummer acknowledges gas prices, considers new strategy.

Feather cosmetics on male birds attracts mates, boosts testosterone; feeling trends, U.S. necktie association folds.

Step 2: Learn the Running Man. Six ways to get laid at a summer camp in 1986.

Vandals of Robert Frost’s cabin ordered to take poetry class as punishment.

Pair turn Heart of Darkness into an opera, ask audiences for constructive feedback.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Bright Inaugural Day, Washington

The U.S. presidential inauguration in January will be one for the ages. LAUREN FREY concludes her series of election-related verse with a hat tip to Langston Hughes.

DIGEST

Lincoln Logorrhea

In his cabinet choices, as in his home state, our president-elect mirrors our 16th president. Gore Vidal’s historical novel about Lincoln helps to balance the dozens of more rigid bios.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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