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Headlines for Thursday, July 2, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Charting better and worse governance over the last decade.

Fantastic: Boyfriend of Berlusconi’s alleged teenaged mistress says his relationship was staged.

India decriminalizes homosexuality; five countries still punish it by death.

Europe lifts ban on oddly shaped fruits.

Building evolutionary trees with perfect math takes forever; shakier math makes trees grow faster.

“How clean coal works, how dangerous nuclear waste really is, and whether the root of the problem is money.”

Presentation trumps content in the powers of persuasion—and all too easily sways rational thought.

Lonely scenes from New England truck stops; ten last pictures taken.

Instapaper for the commute: The Holocaust needs a reassessment with less emphasis on Auschwitz.

Alain de Botton to Times critic: “I will hate you until I die.”

Knife-wielding intruder meets elderly former boxer.

Pornography for ceiling fans.

Morning Edition

The new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan begins today, as thousands of Marines fan out to villages, many on foot.

Traveling in California and New York the last couple of weeks, Timothy Egan notices something different: American flags.

“A majority of society, of which I personally am a member, do not accept the legitimacy of this government.” Mousavi and the opposition hit back.

Declassified interviews with a captured Saddam Hussein reveal he wanted Iran, not the U.S., to believe he had WMDs.

Op: The difference between Berlin in 1989 and Tehran in 2009, and identifying the revolutionary tipping point.

With Mann and Depp’s Public Enemies on the horizon, a look at John Dillinger’s long, overlooked history in film.

An author yearns for light verse, the tender form of prose lost in modern writing.

A 200-year-old coded message, buried in Thomas Jefferson’s personal correspondence, is finally cracked.

Op: To interpret the Riddle of Putin, Obama should pack Dostoyevsky for his trip to Russia next week.

He could have just said this: Listen up. I have a freaking great story to tell you. Kevin Guilfoile on the first 10 pages of Infinite Jest.

The history of “Behind the Mask,” a song Michael Jackson covered but never released, and that was re-recorded by many others.

“Star Trek Made Me an Atheist”: One man’s treatise on how the sci-fi show defined his religious beliefs.

New findings indicate black holes now come in three sizes: supermass, stellar mass, and intermediate-mass.

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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