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Headlines for Monday, November 2, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Karzai gets new term after second round of voting is scrapped, and dubious congratulations flitter down.

News events to anticipate for the week ahead.

Taliban assessment: can’t be flipped against al Qaeda, and fully aware the U.S. will soon depart.

Profile of Perimeter, the not-exactly-autonomous Soviet doomsday device.

This museum is my school, my magazine, my film, my politics. Pamuk creates a museum for his new novel.

Training journal followed Kenyan runners in New York prior to the marathon.

Genetic variation tied to bad driving.

Zoomable chart of cell size and scale.

Op: If the G.O.P. remains the party of prohibition (on gay marriage and weed), it will increasingly lose “freedom” as part of its DNA.

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is the third-highest-earning comedian in America; in 2009, he’s grossed $38 million in ticket sales.

Time-lapse photography of one man’s Halloween vigil, including data on kids’ costumes.

Brief encounter with Stephen King’s gore consultant.

There is very little one can say to capture its horror or its brilliance. What it’s like to be psychotic.

Study of amputees shows that the brain can move phantom limbs in impossible ways.

Instapaper for the commute: History of murder in America.

Agassi on hating tennis and his father, and beating Jim Brown.

Due to hair loss, Agassi’s mullet in the 1990 French Open was a wig.

Morning Edition

More than 90 years later, the descendants of the Leo Frank lynching struggle with unanswered questions.

For the first time in 27 years, an American has won the New York Marathon.

From the 2004 race, “Faces of the Marathon,” by Rion Nakaya.

“I was the first person to run on Hampstead Heath, in the 1960s.” The scientist who invented exercise.

People in local newspapers are angry right now—here’s proof.

An explication of Iranian missile names.

On Sunday, Brighton Beach Memoirs, one of Neil Simon’s most-produced plays of the past 25 years, became one of Broadway’s biggest flops.

From the ’60s to the present day, an appreciation of blacklight posters.

People can sometimes swing the cost without refinancing their houses. As more companies enter the market, solar gets cheaper.

India purports itself as the origin of scientific inquiry, rhinoplasty.

Taiwanese baseball may be rife with corruption, but fans don’t care.

Because you know they’re in there somewhere: Criterion’s little fuck-ups.

How E.M. Forster foresaw the internet in “The Machine Stops” a century ago.

A literary experiment to create new nouns.

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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