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Headlines for Friday, July 3, 2009

Weekend Edition

Fascinating profile of one governor’s election as a study of drugs in Mexican politics.

Iraq war video game incites fury, raises ethical questions, gets pulled from production.

Instapaper for Saturday morning: Why groups do things that group members would never do on their own.

Another good July 4th read: Brief history of the pyrotechnic spark of life.

In the gas vs. charcoal grilling debate, the eco-friendly argument goes for the former, mainly.

Photos of eating in Gaza, where war has made access to fish, chicken, and livestock scarce.

Ecuadorean radio and television council deems The Simpsons too racy for primetime.

Michael Chabon on the difficulties of teaching his children to be adventurers.

David Foster Wallace’s editor at Little, Brown shares some of Wallace’s editing notes with the Infinite Summer crowd. There’s still time to read and join!

Blog dedicated to very bad library books.

Digital ramble through the aesthetics of summer blockbusters; TMN readers and staff on much the same.

Study of “the gulf between literature’s abstract power and the trivia that always attends its creation.”

Ten steps to producing the worst possible author photo.

Musicians’ “coolness” determined by how often their songs are deleted or marked “guilty pleasure.”

Morning Edition

“We never thought we would do it again.” California readies more than $53 million in IOUs, mainly for residents awaiting tax refunds.

Krugman: The turmoil of states’ budgets and yesterday’s jobs report mean we need a bigger stimulus, now.

Rising unemployment rates beget tightened immigration standards.

Obama administration eschews Bush-era warehouse raids for immigration infractions, warns American Apparel of fines.

Indicating the thaw may be over, Syrian president invites Obama to visit Damascus for talks.

“A game of chance has developed in the post-Soviet space: Who can swindle the Kremlin in the coolest way?”

Reconciling theories of recovery from alcoholism, and coming to terms with the fact that no single one may work.

Paleontologists visit Creation Museum, become irked by inventive interpretation of fossil records.

Proof of climate change exists in Scotland’s shrinking sheep.

When hydrogen sulfide is encountered, it usually kills one person, then their rescuer, then another rescuer.

Because it’s 2009 and you keep asking: Why you will never have a flying car.

Gastric rupture and other stomach-turning injuries competitive eaters face.

Tamiflu has now overtaken Viagra as the subject of the most junk emails.

TODAY’S FEATURE

God Save the Queen From You Chumps

Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, Englishman JONATHAN BELL defends his nation against a cursing student of Anglo-Saxons.

TMN TALKS

Ryan Catbird

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OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Street Fighting Men

Sifting through a recent flurry of books about Sixties radicals and student demonstrators.

THE FOOTNOTES TOO

Infinite Summer

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