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Headlines for Monday, October 26, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Obama weighs outcome of Afghanistan war game; watchers wait for McChrystal to fly to D.C.

Op: Obama’s surveillance tools are the same as Bush’s: served with glib assurances.

At-home cosmetic lasers gaining popularity, and plastic surgeons everywhere are worried.

Interior decorating with Augusten Burroughs.

Distinct anti-Michael Moore movie industry emerging, rankling the ranklers (and the rankled).

Brooklyn writer heads to Mecca to perform hajj, discovers tolerance, eats halal Hardee’s.

Egypt attempts to blacklist Beyoncé.

Perhaps I’m just getting old, but lately I’ve been hearing songs I like in the Container Store. Judging a place by its muzak.

Studies find that if you want people to work well as a team, give them sweaters or a warm climate.

How Letterman and his team experienced the blackmail reveal.

Historians say the battle of Agincourt, basis of English pride, was a more even fight than previously believed.

Soccer players with exposure to civil wars are more likely to get yellow cards during matches.

Disney offers refunds to parents of children harmed by Baby Einstein videos.

Dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don’t. Crime novelist quits reviewing crime novels after too many books turn up torturing women.

Accounts of citizens most likely murdered by powerful Malaysians.

Descriptions of pain from the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

#drac: Right in time for Halloween: Survey with samples of Dracula adaptations.

Morning Edition

Times reporter David Rohde’s Afghanistan kidnapping account could serve as a guide for how best to deal with the Taliban.

How the Red Cross delivers letters to hostages.

By effectively cornering the market on anti-Administration animus, Fox News has had a robust 2009 so far.

Some researchers theorize that we may have evolved from rocks—proton-powered rocks, but rocks nonetheless.

Video examines why a notable Cuban artist, famous for delving into secretive male worlds, committed suicide.

Maps depict state-by-state U.S. remarriage rates for men and women.

Op: Sesame Street was more than a TV show—it was a brilliantly executed government program.

Wealthy parents are injecting their vertically challenged children with human growth hormone to give them a literal and physical leg up.

Certainly you remember the sleepless week that followed; tell us your first horror movie experience.

Today’s long read: How medical robots could someday teach us to heal.

Now on display at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design: the art of paper manipulation.

At the very least, as Truman Capote happily observed, Avedon was interested in “the mere condition of a face.”

“He didn’t look particularly comfortable.” Morrissey recovering after collapsing during a concert.

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