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Headlines for Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Clinton scores big West Virginia win, Obama retains “nearly insurmountable advantage” in delegates.

And where has Giuliani been, post-bump? Consulting in Ukrainian urban politics.

Ehrenreich: Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way.

Dating FAQ from Grand Theft Auto; marital rating chart from 1939.

Clinton has been assuring white males she’s come into their tavern not to smash the bottles, but to join the brawl.

What it’s like on a night out with the boys in Saudi Arabia.

What guerilla gardening operations look like.

Which is better for the environment, real grass or turf?

Variety of middle-class adults make careful choice to use marijuana to enhance activities, study finds.

“Smart” only an insult in Hollywood, Washington.

Op for the commute: You’ve bought stolen goods from some of the world’s poorest people.

Democracy now threatened by your digital dumbness. (Those who’d rather sit on books than read them?)

“I don’t think it’s strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt.” Johansson on her new album.

The overview from Cannes.

Photos of car owners, then and now; David Remnick’s top 100 jazz albums.

New Yorkers have reason to fear bedbugs on the subway.

Morning Edition

A booming economy, soaring literacy rates, and how false statistics belie the Burma military’s inability to lead.

“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.” Bush gave up the links in 2003.

From 2006, “Golf Is a Highly Mental Game.”

In Barcelona, children learn to half-flush to save water.

In Juneau, children forgo video games and boast of the kilowatts they’ve saved.

On the two-second commentary of writer Chuck Lorre’s (Two and a Half Men) vanity cards.

Sleuthing to the bottom of why “April is the cruelest month” became one of April’s hottest web searches.

The U.K. puts its UFO files online, here.

The Vatican approves belief in alien life.

Einstein believed religion was little more than “human weakness.”

Artist Robert Rauschenberg died Monday night, age 82; see images of his work here.

I didn’t have a lot of savings, since people continued to pay me with hickory nuts. Atticus Finch remembers.

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