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Headlines for Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Afternoon Edition

In Senate hearings, Republicans attack Kagan by lobbing potshots at Thurgood Marshall.

While on paper Kagan appears to be made out of, well, paper, in person she lights up a room.

A study suggests those who are reserved are more likely to become violent when drunk.

Scientists suspect Tut’s penis was stolen to prevent posthumous size embarrassment.

[Aung San Suu Kyi] is locked away in people’s hearts and minds and interior rooms.

For the first time since 2002, Roger Federer is defeated at Wimbledon.

How technology connects us to the Arctic, “where the passing of what has gone will be most fully recorded.”

Video: Clay Shirky describes how we’re multitasking our way toward a better world.

Since their arrival in March, Brooklyn Bridge Park’s metal domes have burned many little hands—and are now being removed.

An article supposes restaurants hate food bloggers, though not as much as journalists writing about food bloggers apparently do.

Slideshow: What, if anything, is Big Bird?

How St. Elsewhere’s many crossovers imply nearly the whole of television exists only in Tommy Westphall’s mind.

Reprint: U.S. may have been abused during formative years.

Morning Edition

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah: “There are two countries in the world who do not deserve to exist: Iran and Israel.”

Op: Arabs who love the idea of Palestinians as permanent victims dump on Fayyad’s state-building.

Half of Afghanistan’s 476 women prisoners were detained for “moral crimes”—e.g., refusing to marry, or marrying without their family’s wishes.

Citizens in lower-IQ countries waste early brain power fighting parasites, scientists suggest.

Romanian dictator’s pageantry and rule reconstructed through film montage.

Numerical breakdown of Forbes’s meaningless Celebrity 100 list.

Profile of Anna Chapman, face of the latest Russian spy ring.

No slaughtering sheep in the backyard. Russia readies etiquette handbook for immigrants moving to Moscow.

Take one: Kagan likes an evolving Constitution—as did Marshall and Thomas Jefferson.

Take two: Kagan called nominee hearings “vapid” and “hollow,” and is keeping them that way.

India’s new census to survey a billion people in 45 days with 2.7 million enumerators.

Finding success, Panera to expand new non-profit restaurant model, where customers pay what they can.

Despite being a “global powerhouse” in lawn-bowling, South Africa’s champions “hang back” during the World Cup.

FIFA apologizes for officiating errors and says it will reconsider goal-line technology.

Round-up of Louis CK’s greatest hits.

Results from the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest for worst first sentence.

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