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Headlines for Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Federal Reserve to buy up bundles of debt, a radical move aimed to free up credit markets.

Attention commuting cyclists: Prepare for a monthly tax break in the bailout.

Meet the Treasury’s Goldman-ite with $700 billion in his wallet.

Pictures and scorn in case you, too, are sick of seeing sad traders in the news.

Scientists say the urge to punish is natural; the debate is over whether it leads to a gain or loss.

Nobel physics prize awarded for work “exploring the hidden symmetries between elementary particles.”

How to photograph an atomic bomb; primo tickets for Met’s “Doctor Atomic” to go for $30.

What to watch for during tonight’s debate.

Author of anti-Obama book detained in Kenya for book-touring without papers.

Tax professors agree: Gov. Palin and her husband owe tens of thousands in back taxes.

Print for the commute: Understanding Palin through Pentecostalism, the “mobile faith” that fights back after two slaps.

Salon grasps at straws trying to prove Florida’s Jews have been Palin-ed away from McCain.

On religion, Obama, and Springsteen’s “The Rising.”

It irks me that I even have to say this: Being a Muslim woman is a joyful thing.

Collection of dead children featured in Edward Gorey stories.

Morning Edition

[Election officials] should make clear that in many circumstances, people in foreclosure still have the right to vote where they have been living. Disenfranchisment will threaten over a million largely Democrat voters.

On the Wall Street crash suicide myth, a grandson’s reflections on its legacy.

Profiteering from climate change this week: the tourist industry, smart Canadians.

Burj Dubai: $4.1 billion; proposed Nakheel Tower: 200 meters higher.

Critiquing opening credit sequence, spotting selfish designers.

The Onion, perhaps tiring of election year news, steps back in time to 1783.

Your “what crisis?” moment of Zen: GDP rise since 1810.

On Sunday, Calvin Trillin led 35 participants on a dining tour of Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown, and Little Italy.

Video: A literal take on A-Ha’s “Take on Me.”

Hug yourself and wait until it passes with Kindertrauma, “the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid.”

It’s October, so it’s time for Gothtober—that’s advent for autumn.

TODAY’S FEATURE

How to Embalm a Body

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, NICOLE PASULKA visits a funeral home in New Jersey to learn, hands-on, how to prepare someone for an eternal rest.

DIGEST

Anyone Else but You

The ultimate love song for the socially awkward gets a much hotter reinterpretation by France’s first lady and French Elle’s Sexiest Man of 2007.

Fictitious Heroes

Mock the Vote

Matthew Baldwin sorts through reader-submitted campaign signage.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008