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Headlines for Monday, November 16, 2009

Afternoon Edition

First international flight to leave Chechnya in 15 years takes off from Grozny, headed for Muslim holy sites.

There were martyrs on 9/11. They were the firefighters. Profiles of British Islamic fanatics who have given up jihad.

Missing Labrador found after a year lost in the Afghan desert.

Undersea gliders track whales through clicks and squeals.

Nepal’s caste of musicians—untouchables and oral historians—race to catch up with modern times, even if it means wandering less.

Notes on France’s spending a billion euros annually to keep its press alive.

Tour through the “background players” of Obama’s family in Kenya.

South Carolina prisons sell playing cards with unsolved cases as the faces; article finishes with killer closer.

Heavy multitasking impedes efficiency, light multitasking OK.

Slot machines go interactive.

Former prostitute and anonymous blogger Belle du Jour unmasks herself; turns out she’s a doctor in neurotoxicology.

What’s odder than a doctor in neurotoxicology? A link blogger.

Audio: Calvin Trillin eats poutine.

New Yorker writer goes to lunch with a Michelin inspector.

Video: Perhaps the world’s funniest pullback, or, What to Eat at the Pyramids.

Morning Edition

G.M. reports $1.15 billion loss, will repay bailout five years early, due to “performing modestly above expectations.”

Mexicans reverse the fortune, sending much-needed funds to out-of-work relatives in the U.S.

#mathowielove: The Metafilter founder tells how his brain tumor was discovered and treated, and how the internet helps when you need it most.

Those of us who grew up after the Wall fell may never completely understand what it was like before November 9th, 1989.

The coming battleground in the war against smoking in New York: your living room.

What it would look like if New York and Tokyo flooded.

German architect aims to build world’s largest fake mountain.

Interactive map shows the changing American electorate since 1960.

“What’s the recipe?” you ask the weary pro chef, and he gives you a weary-pro-chef look. Adam Gopnik on our fascination with cookbooks.

As we enter the holiday season, Ben Schott queries his readers about their favorite terms for being Dean Martoonied.

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They tried to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of a sun wheel, a form similar to the swastika. How the Nazis stole Christmas.

The recording of a star-packed audio version of the Bible, and the “troubleble with Zerubbabel.”

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