Headlines from August 18, 2009

Iraqi government considers a referendum that would allow voters to oust U.S. troops early.
The story behind TehranBureau.com, which dutifully covers Iran despite not actually being there.
Hoping to head off mental health problems, the Army plans to require all troops undergo emotional resiliency training.
Reporter travels to Fiji to investigate the bottled water, is threatened by a military regime eager to defend the brand.
Louisiana prisoners evoke 1980s Ireland by staging hunger strikes in protest of jail conditions.
American and two Russians indicted on charges of carrying out the largest hacking and identity-theft crime in U.S. history.
Honesty is only an automatic process for some people; others unconsciously choose between lying and telling the truth.
Nimis, a micronation in Sweden, is home to nomads and illegal sculpture--but not hopeful Pakistani refugees.
A big reason Americans don't bike more is because there's too many parking spots for cars--and most of them are free.
I found myself on an uninterrupted two-mile stretch with no visible way in or out ahead of me. A 14-mile run through New York's baseball history.
Film adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov ends where most people stop reading book.
"The Merchant of Tennis" and 49 other stores with puns for names.
"And you are?" Everything Don Draper said in the first season of Mad Men.
Hitchens: Yale Press's capitulation on the Mohammed cartoons is a tub of rot.
Mood report in Afghanistan: "Do not vote on Thursday, or we will punish you. Signed, the Taliban."
Chronic stress found to rewire the brain to promote further feelings of being highly stressed.
Op: If alive today, Zora Neale Hurston would be a Fox News pundit.
Over-emailed politicos spice up their BlackBerrys with saucy subject lines.
Roger Ebert adores the term "death panels," and would like to sing to you the praises of public medicine.
Interactive map of failed American banks; Slideshow: Goodbye Dubai?
Tennis fans have lots to follow on Twitter.
Elusive Thomas Pynchon picks out a playlist for his new book.
Things you may not know about the workings of scientific journals.
Jupiter's black eye and nine other signs of a rough-and-tumble universe.
The nurse was still looking at me. "I hear she's a whiner," I said hopefully. Gripping, moving account of a doctor's first night on call.
Account of the real family Evelyn Waugh loved and later used for Brideshead Revisited.