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Headlines for Thursday, July 15, 2010

Afternoon Edition

Running from violence, 40,000 people have fled their homes in DR Congo since June.

Afghans to form local forces—“not militias”—to fight Taliban insurgents in remote areas.

Argentina becomes first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage.

Alabama’s Tacky Jacks preps for its first “Wet POTUS contest!

Pictures of a Chinese ghost town.

Account of a three-hour Mexico City street-eating tour.

Lonely mamas, Ms. Lovely Day will make you feel better about yourself, $100/afternoon.

Argument for giving up caffeine: so you can return to it—occasionally—and enjoy it more.

Many people are suffering from what they said on Facebook. And more will suffer. The case for putting an expiration date on information.

Reflective anamorphosis: where images require mirrors to be unraveled.

Che Guevara’s life is not “all smart suits and private jets for the guerrilla-turned-philanthropist.”

Shtenygart: Maybe literature will come back some day. It just sucks to be in the butthole of it.

Video: Sharp editing and the right tinting produces Ferris Club.

Morning Edition

Analysis of chatter suggests Middle East indirect talks are not going well.

Instapaper: What “sanctions against Iraq” really meant on the ground.

Fighting Russia’s heatwave with vodka and swimming, 233 people drowned in Moscow last week.

Distrust numbers in the news; even rigorous-seeming statistics conceal squishy measurements.

Google ranks Pakistan no. 1 in sex-related searches.

Photographs of South American women and their maids dressed in white T-shirts.

Inside the international fight to put foreign food on the American table.

Oklahoma high school issues warning about dangerous new fad: audio samples that simulate drug effects.

Stats on lies told in online dating, plus truths (e.g., 80% of self-identified bisexuals only interested in one gender).

Happiness and sadness are both contagious—but sadness has more social influence.

Scientists unsure how long it takes people to overcome long-term sleep debt.

Eighteenth-century ship found at World Trade Center site.

Chalet-inspired lodging takes first place in competition to design hotels for insects.

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