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Headlines for Friday, March 14, 2008

Afternoon Edition

On measuring the inconsistency of McCain’s voting record.

On boycotting the vote in Iran: “I have voted once in 30 years, and that was for the creation of an Islamic Republic,” says an old gentleman. “I’m not going to get fucked again.”

On “rank-link imbalance”—people good with mentor and bosses, but bad with friends and lovers.

Print for the commute: The department of pre-crime.

You could also print this enormous paper on protecting the internet, but that wouldn’t protect many trees.

How to turn a profit as the world gets warmer: by envisioning the carbon market.

Elizabeth McCracken decides between Laura Lippman and Junot DÍaz in today’s ToB.

What is the effect of all those prescription drugs ending up in the water supply?

Will Borders turning books cover-side-out sell more titles, or turn them into Froot Loops?

Happy birthday: Kottke.org turns 10 today.

Only 20 known veterans of World War I remain.

Touring the Lower East Side with Richard Price, discussing his latest novel.

How to map out the sentence, “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

Rosecrans Baldwin on the viral videos circulating around his Paris office.

Video: An abridged history of American centric wafare.

Prepare for battle: PowerPoint karaoke.

Morning Edition

E.P.A. reveals Bush intervened, weakened its new air pollution standards.

Thanks for the laughs guys. This was great. Obama campaign responds to Clinton email.

Tax returns mean an increase in stolen identities—Girl Scout troops prove a bevy of potential targets.

In zoos across North America, gorillas are dying of heart disease, and diagnostic testing is a delicate procedure.

Clock preservationists are out to save the cuckoo population.

Mailbag: A reader in Russia responds to Elizabeth Kiem’s election piece.

Making art from books; also see: “Pulp Friction” by Thomas Allen.

The normally low-key Paris Book Fair becomes a political hotbed, as countries boycott the presence of Peres.

The power of our internet children: Kids today—we’re telling you!—don’t read, don’t write, don’t care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods.

“Sequins & Scandals”: inside the corrupt, dishonest, and structurally perverse world of figure skating.

The 20 biggest record company blunders and their unintended consequences.

It is mostly legal to paint your car like a police cruiser.

Video: Free-flying wearing only a wingsuit.

Archie does “Common People.”

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