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Headlines for Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Russia uses Gazprom to pull Europe into its tangle with Ukraine.

When it comes to anticipating death, doctors would do well to trust patients’ instincts.

Instapaper for the commute: Incisive David Cole essay on what we should do with those who made torture American.

“Alien vs. Predator” by Michael Robbins tests you to say you don’t like poetry.

If you like Robbins, you’ll love Jay Hopler (see more).

Soft Skull wants your help picking the cover for Pasha Malla’s new collection of stories.

Pasha Malla explains why different toilet seats have different designs.

Did Cary Grant design the original secret-mirror sunglasses?

Traffic author on why celebrities drive themselves—badly—rather than take limos.

Video: Now-Senator Franken does Mick Jagger not so badly (but remains unseated).

Photos of industrial remains from an abandoned soundstage for The Wire.

Studying the resurgent popularity of The Crab-Canning Ship in Japan for signs of social unrest.

Not in itself particularly noteworthy except in the manner of the Queen’s death. British news events from 2009.

Help build the world’s tallest British sandwich.

Morning Edition

Krugman: Banks aren’t lending; businesses and consumers aren’t spending. Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.

Björk’s fund will be called, er…Björk. Björk launches a green venture-capital mission to save Iceland.

The Edge’s Annual Question: “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?”

Rwanda’s gorilla infatuation struggles to balance tourist dollars, gorilla vets with locals’ basic needs, doctors.

Though high-culture circles rarely consider videos games art, it’s a rare popular medium where difficulty is a virtue.

Classic board games are fun because everyone knows them—and everyone knows them because they’re fun.

Also: Matthew Baldwin’s guide to the best board games of 2008.

Reviewing the past year of the New Yorker’s fiction, story by story by story.

Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and other relationships between classic authors.

I take the train to New York City for a poetry reading in the East Village and notice immediately how pale everyone is. Daniel Nester tries on a fake tan.

Read more Nester in The Morning News Annual, our yearly edition of collected works and new pieces.

To me, books are the physical vessels that keep us linked to all the human times and places. “Valuable Artifacts” by Richard Bausch.

The year in water-related photos.

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