Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Headlines for Friday, November 6, 2009
Weekend Edition
Latest F.B.I. push into hedge-fund crimes brings charges against 14.
Army psychiatrist, now in custody, kills 12 at Texas’s Fort Hood.
London mayor rescues woman from the grips of “feral kids” and “hoodie-clad oiks.”
Turns out the Large Hadron Collider failed due to “an errant chunk of baguette.”
See also: In the event that you have accidentally swallowed the Higgs boson.
Heirloom design: a panacea for consumption.
German programmer codes a field.
Man attempts to visit town that exists on Google Maps but not in real life.
Beware hyperopia: an excess of farsightedness.
T-Mobile study says 22 percent of men are “metrotextuals”— signing their texts with kisses.
Cellphones likely outnumber lightbulbs in some parts of Uganda.
Charles Simic on military fast food abroad, and why it’s an insult to natives.
How to turn food from vending machines into gourmet fare.
Army study shows three-quarters of American youth are too fat or poorly educated to serve.
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