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Headlines for Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Afternoon Edition

When the unemployed percentage equals the percentage of the stimulus paid out, the White House pleads for patience.

Europe worries U.S. will cut a cheap deal with China on climate change.

Germany’s Iron Cross is back, but now it’s an “Honour” Cross, and it’s being awarded during a “relation” in Afghanistan.

Foreign Policy’s 2009 Failed States Index.

Mugabe calls U.S. envoy “an idiot,” improving on “a little American girl trotting around like a prostitute.”

Grappling with the implications of an abortion party; the pro-life case for masturbation.

The very act of seeing oneself as a good person can make it harder to avoid doing immoral things.

Sitting at the feet of greats, mastering a tradition and taking it in your own direction: how philosophy is like jazz.

Why Jackson was buried brainless: Pathologists aren’t finished with the post-mortem exam.

To understand the benefits and troubles of life in Sweden, begin with sex.

Four cases where tearing down a highway improves city life.

“Ballhawks” stalk baseball stadiums for famous homeruns, holding them ransom for prizes.

Wimbledon as more than tennis, having “mastered the art of imperceptible change, so slow, so constant.”

Instapaper: Beyond title recognition, why marketers would use North by Northwest to sell anything is a mystery.

Morning Edition

Here Obama is reprimanding Moscow on several points. What Obama said and what Russians heard.

A new iPhone app reveals a subtlety of New York transit life: knowing which subway car to board so you’re let off at the right exit.

You’ve mastered the subway; now become a better rider, walker, and deli orderer with our “Guide to Urban Etiquette.”

Though inaccurate, restaurants’ caloric disclosures can influence diners to order healthier meals.

What the W.H.O. wants you to know about that virus: Assume it’s swine flu, and don’t rely on Tamiflu.

Recent wins for gun-rights activists allow concealed weapons almost anywhere except for college campuses.

Students with deer rifles were leaning up against telephone poles… And they were firing like crazy back at the Tower.

After 40 years, the iconic couple in the blanket from the Woodstock album cover is still together.

Some rules of thumb to determine whether or not you’re in a cult.

An on-demand book printing machine is a hit in Vermont.

What to read to make you smarter (or dumber).

Rediscovering Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa, an obscure Nathaniel Hawthorne tome.

Fortunately, more people are murdered every year in the pages of Scandinavian crime novels than are murdered in Scandinavia itself.

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