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Monday, May 12, 2008

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Published from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, our headlines contain links to the most pressing, interesting, or odd stories and sites we find around the web.

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Beth Milton

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Headlines for Thursday, March 27, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Opposition threatens mass protests if Mugabe carries through with Saturday’s planned vote-rigging.

You can imagine China isn’t pleased about “Genocide Olympics” T-Shirts.

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater celebrates 50 years, gets Barbie doll based on Judith Jamison; see note about lack of Ken doll.

Op: Getting an education is like becoming a Marine. Men need to be made into Marines.

Map of where gentlemen shop in New York, and a map of where they eat and drink.

Attention men and women who wish to be more compassionate: MRIs find meditation leads to cultivating benevolence, which means it’s trainable.

Scientists mount call-to-arms against animal activists.

A large belly, independent of total weight, is a potent predictor of dementia. Diet to save your brain and organs from toxic fat cells.

Mentally ill (but competent to stand trial) defendant fights for the right to represent himself.

List of foreign gifts given to America’s universities.

Short books for your pressed-for-time reading pleasure; lower-back tattoos now available at Toys ‘R Us.

Today on TMN, “Lessons Learned From Picking the 2008 N.C.A.A. Men’s Basketball Tournament Field.”

Also today, Rosecrans Baldwin judges Ferris vs. McCarthy.

Apparent drug deal in Chicago caught on Google Maps (and now removed, save for Gawker).

Video: You have wondered what a mad scientist looks like. Meet Clifford Stoll.

Muxtape: Creating and sharing mixtapes online.

Morning Edition

Monks disrupt China’s official Tibetan tour for foreign journalists, shout pro-Tibet slogans.

Increasingly, Muslim families in the U.S. choose home schooling; Jewish high schools try to wean students from gossip.

I do not think that is any of your business. Student journalist lobs the first public Lewinsky question at Chelsea.

L.A. Times apologizes for basing Tupac article on hoaxed documents.

LeBron James’s Vogue cover causes controversy; see the cover and Liebovitz’s other shots.

F.B.I. investigates parachute that may have been involved in the unsolved 1971 hijacking over the Pacific Northwest.

Female peacocks really more into their mate’s voice than their feathers.

Audio: The neuroscience of baseball players and their fans.

To arm the Afghan forces…the American military has relied…on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

Video: Brilliant pop-up book of the alphabet.

Star Trek meets moving violation: Concept devices for the laptop of the future.

Comparing package photos of odd German foods to the prepared products.

MetaFilter comments vs. YouTube comments.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Girl Lessons

Mothers and daughters don’t always have the easiest relationships, especially when the daughters try to recycle the mothers with the trash. A story of aspirations, generations, and pop-culture quizzes by JESSICA FRANCIS KANE.

DIGEST

Book Digest

May 12 | Elizabeth Strout give Robert Birnbaum her latest reads; also: The Bill McKibben Reader; Kluge; I Tho…

» Video Digest, May 9
» Mp3 Digest, May 7

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Tricks of the Trade

Matthew Baldwin reflects on the quirks and customs of various professions, from butchers to mapmakers.

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ONE YEAR AGO

Iran to release the one woman from the 15 captured British sailors.

Philippine daycare hostage situation peacefully resolved before lunch.

Women from Pakistani madrasa abduct alleged brothel owner and family.

There’s a Geico gaming tent and a Neutrogena spa, and the Trojan booth offers pina-colada-scented oxygen you can inhale through a tube. Marketers as giddy as students about Spring Break.

World’s tallest man, and hero to dolphins everywhere, gets married; “Short Man Syndrome” proved a myth.