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Headlines for Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Maine is gay marriage’s new battleground; if the law’s upheld, the movement gains its first ballot-box victory.

Instpaper for the commute: Invoking Stalin in today’s debates is frivolous, and it disrespects his victims.

Friedman: We can’t afford 20 years of rebuilding Afghanistan; better to stay strong and fight another day.

Op: When Krauthammer disses Brazil and Obama in the same breath, he disses himself.

Diddy goes to Brazil and likes what he sees.

Seven strategies the U.S. can learn from Byzantine statecraft.

Statistic: All 130,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria currently receiving food aid from the U.N. have mobile phones.

South Africa and Lesotho enter the top 10 in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index.

Naples’s notoriously violent female mafia is gaining regional authority.

Former “fishing business” owner, i.e., marijuana smuggler, seeks employment.

Lessons Thomas Keller learned from cooking his long-lost father’s last meal.

Oxfam’s interactive graphics explain trade rigging.

Hitchens: An atheist and a pastor walk into many bars… (see trailer).

John Irving novels analyzed for recurring themes, e.g., bears, Vienna, wrestling.

Report: the motion aftereffect illusion can be reproduced by imagination.

Scientific processes/stuff illustrated by household objects.

Photos of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Video: Anne Frank in a nutshell: A girl at a window, looking fearlessly at the sky.

Fantasies of a New Yorker lusting after real estate.

Morning Edition

Ecuador will drill for oil in pristine Amazon rainforest unless the world pays it $3 billion.

Trib investigation finds Illinois nursing homes keep the peace by overdosing residents on psychotropics.

Chris Ware’s terrific Halloween-themed gatefold comic in this week’s New Yorker.

The deadline is tonight to tell TMN about the first time you saw a horror movie.

Why we use definite articles for some places—e.g., the Bronx, the Hague?

Autistic man takes a 20-minute helicopter ride over N.Y.C., draws skyline from memory.

Op: California is more or less over.

Agassi admits crystal meth during his tennis career, no longer blames the soda.

Using physics to stop your teapot from dripping.

Understand rap.

Siberians lobby to legalize polygamy, say it’s essential to sustain societal growth.

Their silence…spoke volumes. Chimps grieve a fellow ape’s death.

Photos: Germany’s rainbow stairs; each step represents a different emotion.

The order by which people are admitted to heaven.

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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