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Headlines for Thursday, January 22, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Obama orders closure of Guantanamo, new ethics rules, revisions to CIA’s torture playbook.

The Bush team’s record with Pyongyang these past eight years is a nearly unbroken string of defeats and retreats.

Comparing Obama and Bill Clinton as though it’s a Harvard-Yale football game.

Meet Howard Unruh, America’s first modern mass murderer.

Poster children for “the current PhD despondency” discuss their job prospects and weakened investments.

Obama staff, accustomed to Macs, find the White House mired in six-year-old Windows machines.

Op: Are you prepared to join Obama’s asexual Emo-America?

Want to grab Obama/Animal Collective-related traffic on the web? Sure, why not.

Authors and speechwriters respond to Obama’s speech.

Video: How China saw Obama’s inauguration speech, particularly after he mentioned facing down communism.

We also still enjoy watching Aretha tell someone to shut up during her song.

Roger Ebert pays tribute to Steak ‘n Shake.

U.S. chefs place second in global military cook-off: 150 three-course meals in six hours.

Star Trek: The Next Generation actors are available on Twitter.

Nominate your favorite 2009 Rooster contender for Zombie status.

Morning Edition

Obama takes the oath again—just to be sure.

It’s now possible to get a fairly exact head count—without a magnifying glass. How to measure the size of a huge crowd.

In Iran, only those with satellite TV watched the inauguration; the streets were filled with students burning pictures of Obama.

Photos: Icelanders vent fury over bumbled financial crisis, besieging parliament building with massive protest.

America is addicted to Canadian, not Middle Eastern oil.

Feeling the pinch, car designers attempt some humility at this year’s Detroit Auto Show.

Photos: Growing stocks of unsold cars.

Voting for the 2009 ToB Zombies is now open. Weigh in today: Polls close Monday!

Video: Ze Frank stars in The Remnants, a post-apocalyptic short.

Related: How I survived the various apocalypses.

Chewbacca threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to a game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. And nine more Star Wars sports crossovers.

Also: “Darth Vader Made Me Cry” by Matthew Baldwin.

I don’t think she’d played with guns as a girl, and I didn’t press charges. A year later she threw herself under a train.

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