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Headlines for Monday, March 15, 2010

Afternoon Edition

Thai protesters hoping to gather 2,000 pints of blood, potentially to douse Government House.

Gunmen believed to be linked to Mexican cartels kill a U.S. consulate worker and her husband.

Ten things to know about Burkina Faso (because why not?).

Op: I am one of those people that believe brands belong to companies; countries have reputations.

Every media company wishes it were the Discovery Channel: lean, mean, and master of its own assets.

One in 10 British children think the Queen invented the telephone, and other adorable statistics.

Op: Replacing Grant with Reagan on the $50 bill would deepen our Civil War/Reconstruction amnesia.

On Chatroulette: Endless horizons of sameness, with the occasional rock to trip you up.

TMN’s Giles Turnbull asks the Chatroulette masses how one knows if one is sexy or not.

Q&A with Chatroulette’s founder.

Since children don’t live in worlds of Newtonian physics, bedtime is that much larger and scary.

Wonderful illustrations from Ernst Haeckel’s 1898 Kunst-Formen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature).

Rooms recreated on ceilings.

Video: Original keyboard-cat creator releases new keyboard-cat video.

Morning Edition

Defense official ran private network of contractors, setting up assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Georgia panics after fake TV newscast says the Russians are coming.

Brief profile of world’s biggest bond investor: backs Obama, stiff on Greece.

Guide to Dodd’s financial overhaul bill to finally debut this week.

In a 43-minute phone call, Clinton tells Netanyahu of Obama’s anger.

AIPAC condemns Obama’s ire and Clinton’s 43 minutes, urging the White House to resume being disappointed in private.

Op: No lobby’s more persuasaive than the U.S. military, a message Israel/AIPAC should heed.

Sullivan: Once again, the Catholic Church sees itself as the real victim.

The current Dalai Lama is a professed tickler, often using it as a handshake substitute.

British couple face jail time in Dubai after a child sees them kissing in public.

How Dubai broke down the Bustan Rotana hotel assassination.

Slideshow: Hadrian’s Wall illuminated.

Secret items served by chain restaurants.

Complete analysis of hidden meaning in Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.”

R.I.P. Peter Graves; “request vector, over.”

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