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Headlines for Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Afternoon Edition

House approves Obama’s budget plan 233-193 without a single Republican vote.

Facebook-style visualization of the Senate shows Specter never had many Republican friends.

Nine moments that mattered in Obama’s first 100 days.

Even during the Depression, I’m not sure prices fell this quickly. Home prices in Phoenix have fallen in half.

A year after the murderous cyclone, diplomats report a chink appearing in Myanmar’s political wall.

Kenyan mosquito net manufacturers crack down on those who would use nets as dresses or fishing tackle.

Official theme of China’s naval parade was “harmonious ocean”; China’s neighbors wish it were true.

China has “modest number” of mentally ill (100 million), but no way is it linked to country’s rise, insists expert.

Today’s pdf journal: Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Mug shots may entertain us, but they also erode the presumption of innocence.

Op: Inviting Belarus’s Lukashenko to the party shows the EU lacks principled policy and plain old smarts.

Pope takes a picture with Europe’s last dictator.

He will be remembered as a one-man genre; no one else is remotely like him. He was a talisman. Martin Amis remembers J.G. Ballard.

Dante’s Inferno now a video game.

Video: Pregnant women are smug.

Morning Edition

“Yes We Can Iran”: Ahmadinejad borrows Obama’s slogan for June election.

Snowe: Specter’s defection is a sign Republicans must heed Reagan’s call that the party should tolerate inner disagreements.

Synchrony rituals are powerful; moving and singing in unison builds group cohesiveness, provides competitive advantages.

The first U.S. swine flu death is reported: a 23-month-old in Texas.

Epidemics explain societal fears; plagues of the past led to Jewish exile, gay persecution.

Flickr’s geotagged photos create accidental maps of most photographed locations, show where our attention goes.

Video: In search of China’s frightening “black jails,” where petitioning citizens are detained.

Mayoral aide gets a disciplinary letter in his file for not relaying that Air Force One would strafe Manhattan, send New Yorkers into a panic.

Earlier this month, unidentified attackers successfully brought down an American city’s infrastructure.

“We are, all of us, at risk, and medical science is powerless to stop it.” Millions and millions dead.

A sortable gallery of “Calvin pees” decals.

Recently published: Conversations With Julian Barnes includes one of Birnbaum’s many chats with the author of Flaubert’s Parrot and Arthur & George.

Searching for guitars on eBay, man stumbles across axe stolen from Sonic Youth in 1999—he buys it, returns it, restores order.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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