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Headlines for Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Joe Biden returns to the media’s radar, wooing middle class voters with words like “helluva” and “malarkey.”

Obama scales back ambitious 50-state strategy, abandoning Alaska, other hockey-crazed states.

Republicans are fighting on racial grounds, even when express references to race are not evident.

Some linguistic notes on “uppity” usage.

Graph of the candidates’ tax plans, each income bracket drawn to scale based on population.

When seeking peace in the Middle East, should the U.S. back the Palestinian leader or focus on building civil society?

Thirty years of peace later, no one wants to be Israel’s ambassador to Egypt.

Behind the science of new camoflauge patterns.

Studies find doctors’ clothes—ties, long sleeves—can be “a reservoir for risky germs.”

Man never throws away his trash, keeps non-recyclable garbage in his basement (see blog).

Riding down the Golden Quadrilateral, the brand-new, 3,633-mile expressway linking Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.

Alex Ross, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie win MacArthur fellowships.

Because Harrison is as masculine and raw and unrelenting as they come. Despite inane captions, Esquire’s “75 Books Every Man Should Read” is for babes, too.

Morning Edition

After calling it irrelevant, Bush expected to recognize the U.N.’s practicality at the general assembly.

FBI searches apartment of university student thought to have hacked Palin’s email—the IP addresses, however, don’t match.

Today’s long read: Thomas Frank on how modern conservatism has been warped by ideologues and “outsiders.”

George F. Will: It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency.

Bush administration alumni are driving the McCain campaign team—it’s logical to choose those who know winning.

Biking to work or attending a protest once a month won’t seem so far-fetched anymore. From Largehearted Boy’s excellent “Why Obama?” series.

Bike and car production since the 1950s.

More bikes on the road mean fewer bike accidents, study suggests.

In New York, Sarkozy and Bruni go “le jogging”; Rosecrans Baldwin on Parisian tastes in exercise.

How do you do! I am the little book that you have made. A collection of stories by fifth-graders in 1931.

Video: Frank Lloyd Wright on What’s My Line?

For the sake of baseball fields, why we need more male cake decorators.

Knut’s zookeeper, who hand-reared the polar bear, found dead, age 44.

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