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Headlines for Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Afternoon Edition

A trillion is a lot, especially when you consider the billions of dollars we’re throwing at Afghanistan.

The arresting quality of hearing angry women speak, and what Obama could learn.

The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians.

Researchers find exercise doesn’t reverse the effects of prolonged sitting.

To come of age as a Yankees fan in the mid-1980s was to feel as if Mattingly was all we had. A bat boy remembers his boss.

Polaroids from the 1976 premiere of A Star Is Born and the disco after-party.

Analysis of cave art, and how it furthers understanding of our ancestors’ brains.

Review of the medieval church’s definitions of impotence and qualifications for annulment.

Also: Interview with a sex therapist.

Profile of participants in a new U.K. fad: child beauty pageants.

How language cues help people see nearly imperceptible images.

The consequences of the sun going out is surprisingly benign—we might not even know for 10,000 years.

“No signal! Shit! It’s gonna get us!” Familiar horror movie scenes ruined by the new iPhone.

Morning Edition

Violence and riots continue for a third night in Belfast after controversial parades.

Soldiers in Fort Bliss, Texas, are statistically at greater risk at home than while deployed in Iraq.

China’s People’s Daily says the Taliban is training “monkey terrorists” to kill Americans.

No post-impeachment era president has the power to get a major treaty through the Senate. Senate kills international relations.

Primer on Sarkozy’s summer scandal.

False rumor! God particle not found.

Tour of BP’s actual board game “Offshore Oil Strike.”

Jordan’s Queen writes kids book about multiculturalism, refuses to have it published in Hebrew.

American craft brewers seek to export to Europe.

2010 Times op-ed: Plagiarizing students are like “rap musicians,” what with all the “sampling.”

See also: Michael Erard interviews the first student he busted for plagiarism.

History of the “slush pile,” which began as a fruit-related descriptor.

“Rock Fans Outraged as Bob Dylan Goes Electronica.”

Some of us listen to our own music in our heads. Interview with a New York City window cleaner.

Car review of the Arizona border patrol’s Ford F-150 SVT Raptor.

Research confirms personality divide between dog people and cat people.

Elaborate prank to show Rupert Murdoch’s disapproval of employees wearing shorts.

Believing George was named after him, Steinbrenner approved Seinfeld’s jokes only after he found them funny.

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