Headlines from April 21, 2009

In an effort "to make Norm Coleman go away," Democrat groups ask supporters to donate $1 a day every day Coleman refuses to concede.
"The wall is the perfect crime because it creates the violence it was ostensibly built to prevent." The history of Israel's wall.
Spain leads the way in development of costly but green high-speed trains, reawakens sleep towns, angers airlines.
When a 9,200-ton destroyer is sent to fight Somalian pirates, it's clear sea power must change.
Elizabeth Strout wins fiction Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge. (full list of winners here)
I really didn't tell people as I grew older that I wanted to be a writer--you know, because they look at you with such looks of pity. From August, Strout's chat with Birnbaum.
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Excelsior 1968 is a high school yearbook for the fictional Bristol County Secondary School...Each student here is redrawn (and renamed) from my mother's actual 1968 high school yearbook.
Steven Bevacqua thought he saw secret messages in the new issue of Wired--it turned out to be a hidden puzzle from guest editor J.J. Abrams.
A course syllabus for ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era.
Some of pop's most delightful figures endure exactly because we can't figure out what they are up to. SFJ on fame and the rise of Lady Gaga.
The walk-in cocktail is a gin-and-tonic mist.
Price declines in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Luxembourg stoke fears about deflation.
Notes on how Africa may come out of the financial crisis with stronger financial systems.
Are the values espoused by the Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded?
Cowboy culture meets contraception in fascinating article about wild-horse mating.
To alter public opinion about the mentally ill, treatments need to be shown working.
Interesting, thorough Newsweek profile on the current state and future of epilepsy surgery.
Photos of "myster spotsy," where "bizarre forces" obscure reality.
Death of Maxim blamed on an absence of any erotic charge and too much Photoshop.
Stunning photos of Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Anthropologist who says cooking made us human insists we'll find proof of fires 1.8 million years ago, fear not.
New songs from the Streets appearing on Twitter; Mike Skinner "can't be bothered" to sell his music anymore.
Excerpts from Steve Reich's Double Sextet, winner of the Pulitzer.
Gallimard editor praises France's fixed-price system, where chain stores can't sell for less than independents.