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Headlines for Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Afternoon Edition

Greek unions to stage second strike and shut down all public services tomorrow.

American “La Barbie” fighting for control of Mexico’s Beltran Leyva cartel.

Instapaper for the commute: The great Charles Bowden flees the biggest cartel of all—the Mexican Army.

See also: Wells Tower and his father find disaster in Iceland and Greeland.

Selections from the fantastic photo-book series, “In Almost Every Picture.”

The full story of how Facebook was founded, with important asides about ear sex.

I defy anyone to get a good fundoscopic exam on a seizing patient. Medically focussed reviews of House episodes.

How to transform a hoodie into a computer sleeve, backpack, or baby bag.

Large Hadron Collider to shut down for a year to address design issues.

A look back at N.A.S.A.’s first wind tunnel.

“Vintage” advertisements from Wired magazine, Geocities et al.

Video: “Skinput” turns an epidermis into a keyboard.

Morning Edition

Friedman: Democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in Iraq, which has never known such a thing.

Some—but not too much—business takes place in locker-room showers, politicians say.

Federalist Society bigwigs protest Liz Cheney’s attacks on federal lawyers.

Summaries of Uganda, Pakistan, and other emerging gay-rights battlegrounds.

Chart: U.S. gay partnership laws.

Former batboy for Sinatra remembers great beaches, the Peppermint Lounge, Ted Berrigan, cash, and Venice.

Musings on naming Hitchens’s gay lovers who became Thatcher ministers.

Expensive hobbies and their silly names.

Bloomberg applies data visualization to baseball, sells advanced analysis to teams.

Celebrities’ Twitter messages illustrated.

Video: “Lazy Sunday” performed live.

Abstract expressionists get their turn on postage stamps.

Study finds generosity and selfishness both contagious.

Carbon-dioxide emissions pegged to the consumers eventually responsible for them.

Cannabis use linked to hyper-priming, a small increased risk for developing schizophrenia (and perhaps breakfast tacos?).

TMN’s Sarah Hepola’s extensive breakfast-taco tour of Austin.

Chart: A complete guide to the Census.

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