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Headlines for Monday, March 16, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Europe actually not pleased about taking “the worst of the worst” from Guantánamo.

About two-thirds of all Polish mortgage holders now face skyrocketing payments.

Lessons learned from Obama’s economic blueprints about his policy style.

Need style inspiration? Try the fashion of Mad Men creator Matt Weiner’s son.

China’s luxury-goods market gets boost from officials buying bribery materials.

Books to bank on: Romance novels sell, and they sell more when the chips are down.

I want to build something and be proud of it, as I once was proud to work for Bear Stearns. Former employees remember Bear Stearns one year later.

Notes on the frightening implications when brain-scan images show up in courts as “windows to the soul.”

Magazine editor takes a lie-detector test.

What is this thing you call a “space lifeboat?”

The other porn addiction: Why are ordinary women exposing themselves online?

Mechanisms that cause influential people to become more conventional.

When people look at a painting by Jackson Pollock, they don’t see it as intellectual, abstract work. Alex Abramovich interviews Alex Ross.

Morning Edition

The booming industries of recent years, from construction to finance, will not bounce back. The global job market is hungover, recovery is unaided by a ballooning labor force.

The “patriotism as disease defense mechanism” hypothesis: natural distrust, fear of strangers.

“We used to be in these hills around here, shooting at each other, me on one side, him on the other.” In El Salvador, the left are finally represented in an election.

I picture us like two performers on a USO Tour. We dress to impress. We smile wide no matter what’s on CNBC. Riding the downturn, TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin moves in with his in-laws.

It’s time, once again, to rethink the American Dream—and the accompanying ’50s-’70s Americana photos are terrific.

In San Francisco, a commune that’s dedicated to female orgasmic meditation—which is just what it sounds like.

Related: From 2004, Paul Ford interviews the author of She Comes First.

Also related: Lance Arthur makes the call on the eternal matchup: New York vs. San Francisco.

Mathematician develops foolproof method to solving any Sudoku puzzle—read at your peril.

A visual representation of what a trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills.

Japanese puppetry takes its great power from the fact that it is very realistic and very artificial at the same time.

Children illustrate Tokyo trains with their dreams.

From last July, Christoph Niemann’s children really love the subway.

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