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Headlines for Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Afternoon Edition

Three U.S. soldiers become the first known American military fatalities in Pakistan.

Four months after the massacre, power is transferred peacefully in Guinea.

Various world leaders measured for sickness, sneezing, colds.

Twenty years after its first store in Pushkin Square, McDonald’s chooses Russia as its top country for reinvestment in 2010.

A.I.G. to pay out $100 million in bonuses, plus tens of millions more in March.

Chart of Olympic medals versus G.D.P.; colleges ranked by the popularity of their web sites.

Op: McCain the former war hero doesn’t believe in military readiness.

“There’s nothing more to be said about ‘why no bipartisanship,’ once one recognizes the G.O.P.’s discipline.”

Condé Nast sets up snitch line for employees to tattle on one another.

On the Edwards sex tape: “To remove all digital evidence of her dalliance, [Hunter] should have burned it, preferably in a licensed incineration facility.”

Fascinating photos from one cubic foot of ecosystem.

The pitch of the blues: Blue whales are singing in a lower key, which suggests they’re flourishing.

Writer consults the compulsion to pare down his style and quit foregrounding the rendering.

Art to see: “Glean” in New York, “Default State Network” in Los Angeles; “Art Bin” in London.

Sound map of the United States needs your samples.

Accounts of recovering art from the Nazis.

Morning Edition

Toyota first identified problems with the accelerator in its Tundra pickup trucks in March 2007. U.S. regulators accuse Toyota of delaying “responsible action.”

House members issue letter to Toyota, seeking proof its purported fix will solve the problem of unexpected acceleration in its cars.

A former lawyer for Toyota claims he has proof of the automaker’s history of concealing safety issues.

Dispatch from Tarnac, home to France’s enemies of state.

Three years ago, McCain said he’d support a ban on “don’t ask, don’t tell”; today, he calls it “imperfect but effective.”

Upper-East-Siders, drug dealers prefer silent dogs, face ethical questions over their decision to debark.

This sentence contains expressions of outrage and disbelief largely expressed in Internet acronyms. This is a typical incendiary blog post.

Early version of the Constitution unearthed in Philadelphia.

C.I.A. offers corporate side-jobs to agents.

In the hope that you might consider bringing your much-rumoured memoir to The House of Eliot… Faber editor sends an open letter to Morrissey.

TMN needs an intern for the winter months.

An interview with James Dickey’s son, Christopher, on the event of his father’s birthday.

He…is allowed to evolve past the cycle of samsara to nirvana. The philosophy of Bill Murray.

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