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Headlines for Friday, July 30, 2010

Weekend Edition

So long, Peter Orszag; index of remaining “beautiful,” mostly white, thin people remaining in D.C.

Op: “The Senate’s retreat from cap and trade might lead to a carbon tax. For now, it leaves a dreadful mess.”

Searchable Washington Post database of companies involved in top-secret work.

“Illegal” coal mines near Beijing used to hide bodies after extortion schemes.

That LeBron-does-Vegas story that ESPN killed—sort of lame, sort of a big, spiked deal.

The feeling is just the trigger. We are the loaded gun. Jonah Lehrer on stress.

Notes from inside “The Scene” and the peer-to-peer groups from which movie releases continue to flow.

Video: Field Notes trip to an Iowa state fair.

Resident videos show more than a million gallons of oil flowing into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

Swagger on 200,000 thousand trillion!!! A brief history of Kanye West’s Twitter.

Canadian airport security developing response to luggage stickers depicting cocaine and abducted flight attendants.

List of unusual deaths, from 620 B.C. onward; list of the best medical graphic novels.

New theory suggests emotions developed as bargaining tools.

Illustrated history of Vans sneakers.

Churchill’s dentures, vital to the war effort, auctioned off for $23,740.

From the attic: John Warner’s orthodontia saga.

People who believe in alien abductions are more likely than nonbelievers to drink Pepsi. Flickr co-founder building ultimate recommendation program.

Inventor of Settlers of Catan, “the perfect board game,” hopes to catch up to Monopoly’s popularity.

Where the Wild Thongs Are. Worst Children’s Books.

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