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Headlines for Monday, May 19, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Obama promises change to 75,000 in Oregon (photos); Thai Prime Minister promises change by quitting job as TV chef.

Print for the commute: How the conservative movement ran out of ideas.

Clinton: “This is nowhere near over.”

Audio: How a reporter relied on Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) during her time in Baghdad.

Five most clichéd foreign policy quotations and references (more).

Op: If we believe in divine creation, we are forced to admit that God must be either evil or a bungler.

The 100 must-read books for the making of a man.

“It sounds like stereotypes…but these stereotypes have a germ of truth.” Qualified women just aren’t interested in science and tech.

When it’s acceptable for middle-aged men to have teenaged dates; Britain’s worst poet in demand.

U.S. Olympic swimmers study and mimic sharks, dolphins.

Audio: The Hubble, and other worldwide telescopes, now available for free online (here).

And please note, we want your vacation picks!

Morning Edition

China deploys armed guards to protect pandas in quake’s aftermath; Japanese officials: We don’t like pandas very much.

“We knew we were in trouble when the Serbs stopped delivering our flour.” Through war, upheaval, and independence, Kosovoan bakers just keep baking.

Reminding critics of the Soviet era, Putin creates an executive body within the Kremlin.

California annuls “no-longer necessary statute” banning members of the Communist Party from public agencies.

Russian religious cult trying to hide in an underground cave until the end of the world is thwarted by corpse fumes.

Two-thirds of the subway elevators…had at least one breakdown last year in which passengers were trapped inside; map of faulty MTA elevators.

Out of options and desperate for funds, McCain taps Republican Party, who—to McCain’s chagrin—will tap dollar-magnet W.

Why some feminist leaders have thrown their support Obama’s way: It’s not about gender.

“We did silly stuff, like talk about David Geffen.” Clinton’s staff members comment anonymously on what went wrong.

Forty years of presidential campaign logos.

Resurrecting a defunct brand has as much to do with what consumers misremember as what they recall.

Video: Drew Burrows’s interactive sleeping partner.

Erik Satie, great-great-grandfather of shoegaze rock, has a birthday.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The 11:11 to Penn Station, or Exodus

The Long Island Railroad is New York’s lifeline in the summer—a fleet of rescue vehicles destined for the beach. For some, though, it’s also a means to find freedom. EMILY MEG WEINSTEIN reports from every station down the line.

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