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Headlines for Friday, March 26, 2010

Weekend Edition

F.B.I. investigates threats against Democrats who voted for health care reform.

Activist to transform Maldives atoll into “Democracy Island,” a camp to learn nonviolent political change.

Economist’s assessment of health care reform: coverage to be expanded dramatically, but at a heavy cost to the taxpayer.

Op: The Paralympic Games encourage athletes to be good—just not too good.

Professional golf crashed when the Tiger Bubble exploded; Tour officials hope for (someday) a revived Tiger, though perhaps not an idealized one.

Saturday morning read: Questions asked of “our visceral aversion to interspecies sex.”

New technology for fingerprinting chemical weapons traces by-products.

The amount of moisture has not changed. The water the dinosaurs drank is the same that falls as rain today.

How Michelle Obama’s war on obesity overlooks a crucial collaborator: canned fruit.

Call for an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) Recognition Day, wherein U.S. representatives would turn off their BlackBerries.

“Crazy, Magic, Impossible”—how Polaroid film was reinvented.

Transcription of philosopher-wordplay graffiti found in a University of Chicago bathroom.

David Mamet master class contained in a memo to TV writers.

Photos: Three weeks in Steve McQueen’s world.

Inside the Barbizon Hotel: New York dorm for small-town girls—Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Candice Bergen—who became stars.

Videos: Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band; Super Smart Action Squirrel.

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