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Headlines for Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Bank leaders go on the charm offensive, say they have every incentive to lend and are lending.

Some representatives call bankers heroes, others say they’re connivers.

Op: Settle down. Obama’s start is actually going rather well.

Africom says the U.S. advised, but didn’t run, the Ugandan attempt to kneecap the Lord’s Resistance Army.

What Americans lack is what the European working classes gleefully exhibit: resentment of the rich personally.

Schwarzenegger says 20,000 state jobs will be cut if budget agreement isn’t met soon—and people would like to know what he’s doing behind locked doors with top legislators.

Pornography viewed as recession-proof despite recent downturn.

Books on the Nightstand: the recession gives you time to read.

Authoritarian regimes tolerate “cyber-hedonism” as long as the young avoid politics.

Scientists are not divided on climate change, the crisis cannot be “solved,” and quit blaming China.

Why you should blow your nose one nostril at a time, or not at all.

To get diagnoses and treatment plans right, we need doctors who know us over time, and who have the time to know us.

Photos: Fireworks get out of hand at Beijing Lantern Festival, burn down Rem Koolhaas-designed building.

A look at buildings that looks like Sandcrawlers from Star Wars, including a Koolhaas facade.

Morning Edition

Climate change fuels Australian fires—expect more heat waves, drought, extreme weather everywhere.

Irreversible does not mean unstoppable. The further we turn the carbon-emissions ratchet, the harder it is to turn it back.

Water-line of Greenland ice-melt projected onto British buildings.

Though bad for climate change, British motto “Keep Calm And Carry On” is good for wars, recessions.

Daewoo’s Madagascan land-grab, planning to feed South Korea for years, fuels local violence, revolt.

“There’s a genocide going on.” To many, M.I.A. is the pregnant rapper; she’s using her new spotlight to expose Sri Lankan strife, tacitly promote the Tamil Tigers.

Attention writers who read: The call for submissions in L Magazine’s annual Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction competition is now open.

Attention Tournament of Books followers: Official Rooster wear is now available.

Ad agency internal document reveals the new Pepsi logo is the center of the universe.

A retrospective of the days when advertising was artwork: Charlie Allen’s blog.

This is what I think whenever I see one of the new Pepsi ads.

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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