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Headlines for Thursday, May 21, 2009

Afternoon Edition

U.S.’s three biggest trading partners see steep declines, reducing the market for U.S. exports and opportunities for investment.

Strong demand and robust pricing for riskier companies hints at a latent desire by investors to put money to work.

Profile of Homeland Security’s whiz-bang gizmo department.

Op: Wetsuits are the steroids of competitive swimming.

Fringe parties to benefit from Britain’s widespread disgust with Parliament (Giles Turnbull’s explainer).

Gambia’s Excellency President Professor Dr. Al-Haji Yahya Jammeh appparently instituted witch hunt, killing six so far.

Interesting account of studies on gesture, where waving your hands may help you think.

Studies find living abroad may give you a creative edge.

Terraces for drinking in Paris this spring.

Prepare to read Infinite Jest this summer.

Shakespeare lovers of all kinds miss much more of Shakespeare’s basic meanings than they tend to suspect.

If you like Richard Prince, contemporary art, and copyright-infringement debates, you’ll love this.

Short film: Sorry I’m late.

Morning Edition

In the form of a Pentagon report, ammo for keeping Gitmo open: One in seven prisoners returns to terrorism or militant activity.

Last night, four men were arrested for plotting to bomb Bronx synagogues and use antiaircraft missiles to down military planes.

Health officials confirm that, due to fallout from the 1918 flu, people born before 1957 appear to have some immunity to swine flu.

“No matter which way the cases go, they mishandle it.” U.N. struggles to free itself from sexual harassment complaints.

New report details 60 years of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse suffered by ten of thousands of children at church-run orphanages in Ireland.

A quarter of a million Tamils face two years of internment in squalid camps as Sri Lanka attempts to find and prosecute Tiger fighters.

Bloomberg’s reelection campaign team is a $155,000-a-day mercenary army with no one to fight.

The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace.

Wire creator David Simon reveals more details about his new series, Treme, set in New Orleans.

Even scent-art enthusiasts doubt that fragrance can claim a place alongside painting, sculpture, and music. Opera with smell-o-vision will debut May 31 at the Guggenheim.

The Guggenheim, Fallingwater to be the first sets released in the LEGO Frank Lloyd Wright series. (Images here)

Planters, complete with live plants, and a fountain that Wright installed in the rotunda are back in use. The Guggenheim turns 50.

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