Saturday, November 21, 2009
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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).
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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.
Two-thirds of the subway elevators…had at least one breakdown last year in which passengers were trapped inside; map of faulty MTA elevators.
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.
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