Headlines from April 28, 2011

Ouattara now controls Ivory Coast, but some militias that got him there have gone renegade.
Videos: Tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa.
Excellent view, with lucid information, on artist Ai Weiwei's jailing and the prevailing silence.
Arab leaders absorb Mubarak's mistake--better to fight and kill than run and be humiliated.
Explosion kills 14 in café popular with tourists in Marrakech's main square.
Coming out of secret talks, Fatah and Hamas agree to create unity government, first after split four years ago.
Syria's invitation to the royal wedding withdrawn.
Op: Barack and Michelle weren't invited because the Queen didn't want Britain preferring them to Charles and Camilla.
Primer on modern food wars.
Op: Official U.S. history honors those who tortured; it's time to award those who refused.
Two ways to avoid interference in New York City: cry in public or put on your subway face.
Journalism professor, having taught at NYU for 25 years, sums up in four ideas what he thinks he knows.
If your presentation's goal is something other than starting a meme, cancel it.
Video: Today's secret ingredient is...
Study shows that--in some situations--male dogs trust their noses, whereas females trust their eyes.
Val Kilmer is not a cliché, despite what Val Kilmer himself might say. Val Kilmer on where he is now.
Uncomfortably sexual company logos.
Last night's storms across the South killed 72 people in four states.
States spar over the levee blast that could save a flood-threatened Illinois town--and destroy 130K acres of Missouri farmland.
LAPD finishes analyzing backlog of 6,132 untested rape kits--some were stored for more than a decade.
Rather than legalize hailing livery cabs, NYC considers a new class of non-Manhattan taxis.
Marines begin post-DADT training, including what to do if you see a soldier at a gay bar.
I think I'm getting out just in time. Watching the news, everything seems to be in disorder. Sendak ruminates.
Seventy miles northeast of Tokyo, the factory that makes 40% of the world's computer chips for cars struggles to reopen.
When you write your first book, you actually carve out a great deal of what you'll end up working with for the rest of your life. Saunders advises a former student.
As schools deemphasize writing in cursive, a new generation may never even learn to read it.
History of the plight of apprentices past and present--aka interns--to fight for fair rights.
Science nerds rejoice as the Agulhas Leakage and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation promise a warmer Europe.
An exploration into the phenomenon of people who think they can extinguish streetlamps with their presence.
A third of all U.S. leprosy cases could potentially be from armadillos.