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Headlines for Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Measuring the blood from January’s massacre: 211,500 job cuts so far.

Notes on the wooing, lobbyists, and millions of opinions involved in the nearly $900 billion stimulus package.

One opinion: Restore NASA’s mission statement of service, please.

How to prepare yourself for Obama’s failures.

Obama paid more attention to House Republicans than Bush did in most of the last eight years. Why Republicans won’t vote for the stimulus.

Support group for New York girls who got used to dating bankers, or still date their now-broke asses.

Seriously, people: Dating A Banker Anonymous is real and it has a web site, and we are prepared to bet they’re looking for a book deal.

Design star Michael Beirut on the books he keeps by his side every working hour.

Ten of the coolest gadgets that in 30 years’ time may change our lives.

Why most efficient lightbulbs throw bad light and why most manufacturers don’t care.

You can’t have the good without the bad when it comes to Updike, “the funniest writer never to make a career of comedy.”

Updike’s succinct rules for reviewing books.

Foster Wallace’s fantastic take (down) on (of) Updike from 1997.

From 2005, Updike traces the evolution of the book cover as an art form.

We got your book covers here: The Book Cover Archive.

Recalling Updike, Josh Allen’s back-room reporting on Oprah’s decision to cancel her book club.

Morning Edition

Op: I cannot think of any other president with the same kind of personal credibility in such a critical time. Obama is wise to reach out to the Islamic world.

Alberto Gonzales attempts a comeback; here’s the backlash.

Today’s long read: Escaping North Korea, China, Laos, and discovering life in Seoul.

After causing billions in damages by forecasting financial doom, South Korean blogger tests government’s human-rights resolve.

In Greece, the youth didn’t trust the police, didn’t have hope—so they rioted.

Iceland builds new government, expected to appoint the world’s first openly gay prime minister.

Nobody likes the scourge of city surfing, which is overpopulation, and the toughest proletarian surfer would prefer to share the waves with three corporate lawyers than with 30 removals men.

Everywhere in the world, clean freshwater is dwindling, raising new interest in desalination of saltwater—which is almost everywhere.

Our neighboring planet served as a shadowy twin onto which earthly concerns, anxieties, and debates were projected. From last month, Updike on Martian robots.

From 1961, his review of Franny and Zooey for the Times.

Douglas Coupland: How much less spending can we afford? Where will it take us?

Blagojevich claims behavior was just elaborate plan to surprise Patrick Fitzgerald with Senate nomination on his birthday.

Matthew Baldwin opens his annual “Make-Yer-Own Oscar Pool Page.”

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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