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Headlines for Thursday, May 8, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Obama switches to general-election strategy; Republicans focus attack ads on Obama.

Pelosi: Woah there, the race is still alive and well.

Pick a Veep: for Obama, for Clinton.

Roger Ebert on the movie to be made when the Clintons realize they’ve lost.

Gallery: Bil Eppridge’s images of Bobby Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin’s latest digital ramble for the Times Moment blog.

Facebook has leaked out of the college dormitory and has begun infecting grown men in disturbingly vast numbers.

Austrian incest father says he’s “not a monster” since he never killed his daughter.

London mayor keeps promise, bans drinking alcohol on public transportation.

Remembering the scientific battle to fight sloth, including the grafting of monkey testicles.

Nature as metaphor for politics: On China’s Tai Lake, polluted, poisonous, and immune to efforts to enforce a clean-up.

Where not to go on your summer vacation; R. Kelly is going to court—eventually, maybe.

Saddam’s prison diaries reveal he was worried about catching an STD from his guards’ laundry.

Print for the commute: In case you missed it, Richard Price on the editing of Clockers.

In what is being called the first conceptual terrorist attack on American soil, the landmark Sears Tower was encased in strawberry gelatin.

Morning Edition

First U.N. aid flights arrive in Burma; despite reports to the contrary, officials still refuse U.S. access.

Burma’s junta has so frustrated aid workers that the French foreign minister recommended the U.N. enter Burma without permission.

This week, 11 opposition activists were beaten to death by Mugabe supporters.

“We’re giving the people of Zimbabwe another opportunity to mend their ways, to vote properly.” Mugabe’s militias boost intimidation campaign.

On Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” and how not all Republican votes for Democrats can be chalked up to mischief.

Those who sleep less are prone to smoke more—or is it that those who smoke more are prone to sleep less?

Winning the war on meth: Surveys, police statistics confirm the drug is in sharp decline.

Tracking the media upswing in creating the next drug menace, the still-legal Salvia divinorum.

The CEO of Adidas talks tracksuits and the politics of the Olympics.

Fast food gone free range: Chipotle’s deal with the pigs.

Ten new terms to improve the quality of internet insults.

The tricky world of the New York bicyclist: getting “doored” and other holdups.

Artist Jason Polan is drawing everyone in New York, maybe even you.

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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