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Headlines for Thursday, August 27, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Cash-for-clunkers program soon to become dollars-for-dryers, Warbucks-for-washers, etc.

Bob Dylan negotiating with car manufacturers to be the voice of their in-car navigation systems.

Op: Some Italian women, long beleaguered, are starting to put up with less, even when most Italian girls want to be velinas.

Kindness is essential to our humanity, but it is deemed the virtue of losers.

Men with obits in Kennedy’s shadow: Dominick Dunne, Richard Poirier, Larry Knechtel.

Nuclear deterrence is like playing a game of poker in which the entire world’s lives are at risk.

Young reporter spends time with Khalifa Hakeem, once Pakistan’s most influential journalist.

Ingredients of a Slim Jim analyzed.

Julie Powell’s main guff with Julie and Julia: It misrepresented her cat.

Summary of a case study where a patient changed sex after having a seizure.

Profile of the star-nosed mole and its beautiful appendages.

Instapaper for the commute: Reasonably accessible article on the status of computing’s P vs. NP problem.

Google to allow free direct access to more than a million public domain EPUB books.

Burma’s unlikely literary problem: too few fiction writers.

Video: Interview with Manhattan van man.

Morning Edition

According to one prominent economist’s Misery Index, America was the most miserable under Carter and the least under Reagan.

Politicians continue to struggle with talking about poverty.

Survey shows that as the recession deepened, Americans cut back on volunteer work.

After his diagnosis 15 months ago, Ted Kennedy decided to make a “good ending”—and he did.

Babbo server’s account of waiting on Frank Bruni as the former critic adapts to civilian life.

A visualization of time travel plots in various films and TV programs.

Braniff International made their flight attendants change their outfits three times during a routine flight. Retro airline commercials.

Three-time Infinite Jest reader Matt Bucher picks up the details Wallace picked up from other books.

Bizarre account of a St. Louis doctor who went crazy, only to open up a new practice.

For this month’s “Of Recent Note,” we want to know: What’s your superpower?

Video: Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the innateness of the pentatonic scale.

British scientist develops formula for the ideal David Bowie song—includes a video, complete with fake Bowie vocals.

Bodyshop 711’s fearless geometry single-handedly ended the cubist movement in box art. The city’s most valuable (and overlooked) cardboard.

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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