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Sunday, May 11, 2008

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Today’s Feature: “Girl Lessons” by Jessica Francis Kane
Digest: “Video Digest” by Meave Gallagher

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 Friday, May 9, 2008

Afternoon Edition

North Korea hands over boxes of nuclear-related documents, clearing way for removal from U.S. terrorism blacklist.

Comparing lists, Obama now tied with Hillary for superdelegates.

Op: The only thing left for Hillary is to negotiate the terms of her surrender.

McCain takes time, early steps to prepare for the big race.

What one week of news in the Guardian newspaper looks like graphically.

On the separation of verbatim memory from gist memory in the brain.

Study of the stratospheric amounts ballet companies spend on toe shoes.

Mexico’s national police chief assassinated; cartels blamed for killing 6,000 in 2.5 years.

If you ever get tired of the steampunk lifestyle—AND HOW COULD YOU—good luck trying to sell your clockwork top hat on consignment. Todd Levin discovers steampunk.

Steampunk, you say, praytell what be that?

Man infiltrates pet psychics by posing as his own dog.

Word problems for future hedge-fund managers.

Hilarious: The Harper’s (Bazaar) Index.

If you’re a married woman living in the New York City area, there’s a better than 50 percent chance that you don’t work.

Cities can prepare to see marketing soon in logo-shaped clouds.

We are prepared to love transparent Post-it Notes.

Get academic: The journal of cartoon over-analyzations.

Morning Edition

As Clinton continues campaigning, Obama returns to Washington, ready to unify Democrats for November.

After two days of fighting, Hezbollah forces seize most of western Beirut.

Touring Guantanamo exhibit displays replica of a maximum-security cell.

Subtle: Wytham Woods are home to about 400 breeding pairs of great tits.

The pigeons are a problem, so Venice is quitting the birdseed business.

I always wondered what would happen if marijuana were legalized for anyone over 18. It seems it already has been, and nothing happened.

White House report links teen pot smoking to depression, mental illness.

Will the Fritzl children ever recover? Can they even survive?

Further improvements in medicine and technology may not make any difference to the chances of life before 24 weeks.

Things to know before you go on a baseball vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Trampy girls at batting practice…This strategy may work in the minors. Ten people to avoid at the ballpark.

Video: Sad Kermit plays “Needle in the Hay,” reenacts The Royal Tenenbaums.

Where we do what we do—where do you do what you do?

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

Video Digest

May 9 | The best of April’s viral videos, culled by Meave Gallagher: Erykah Badu’s advice for yo…

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