Headlines from May 26, 2010

Obama sends 1200 troops to border-patrol; Cancun mayor arrested for trafficking.
Doctor who spread autism-vaccine hokum discharged from General Medical Council for "dishonest," "misleading" research.
Harvard professor spends 40% of his time chasing research grants.
Central African lawyers prefer keeping anti-witch laws on the books for pragmatic, anti-lynching reasons.
Towel Day and spacecraft tweets enlarge Douglas Adams's legacy.
Why Twitter influence isn't a game of quantity; one of most influential users is a librarian with few followers.

Study suggests intelligence can be improved by increasing your working memory.
Some people find their calling in belt-sander racing--people who amount to little or nothing in the real world.
Women's fashion used to understand how Americans are "slowly turning ourselves into Islamofascists."
Burning mouth syndrome, smoking stool syndrome, and other curious disease names.
Minute-by-disgusting-minute breakdown of how Cheetos are made.
New smartphone app available to answer your philosophical crises.
For this month's ORN, join TMN in rewriting the final espisode of LOST.
The murderer is always the vaguely familiar character, and other lessons from Law and Order.
Kingston under siege as Coke crisis continues; calm will come from legal acrobatics or Coke's consent.
Tracking Jamaican unrest online.
Mitchell is broadly optimistic about Middle East progress, urging "extreme risks" for peace.
Syria's Assad: America has no influence, because it is doing nothing.
Op: Obama shares oil-spill blame; pray he doesn't get a better chance to do better on energy legislation.
"Fishery disaster" declared in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, unlocking federal funds.
Midget subs are no laughing matter--South Korea to install new "snooping system."
News opinions from UK's topless tabloid girls.
Instapaper: How the National Enquirer went from scandal sheet to Pulitzer contender.
Great-distance migration paths tracked.
Op: Four ways to use the 2014 Sochi Games to resolve long-standing Caucasus conflicts.
New York cops angry over "moronic" bill that would mandate shooting to wound.
Photos of a brain being sliced and shaved.
Study says Google Pac-Man costs $120 million in lost productivity (Google Pac-Man)
I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys? Math geeks unite.
Wonderful: Christoph Niemann's house is haunted by goblins.