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Headlines for Monday, February 8, 2010

Afternoon Edition

Recent courtroom victories back up U.S.’s attack on foreign business bribes.

You can only put so many goldfish in a tank. How to measure economic activity from outer space.

Op: We the idiots are responsible for America’s political and economic crisis.

Shanghai moves to discourage people from wearing pajamas in public.

“Triumphalist nature” of Sinatra’s “My Way” cited as why it has fueled so many fatal fights in the Philippines.

Photos: Underage migrant workers flood India.

Women who give birth after 40 nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism; however, older mothers barely account for the increase in autism diagnoses.

She’s gorgeous, but with a fatwa, it’s tricky to find guys.

Studies show that massive bonuses discourage people from working to the best of their abilities.

Study of graffiti trends in college bathrooms.

Snow-shovel racing pulls back from a super-modified future, and the world championship witnesses no injuries.

Vancouver welcomes the Olympics with its largest show of force since World War II.

Roger Ebert pays tribute to the London life he remembers.

The argument for Chatroulette, and the argument against it, sort of.

Morning Edition

Two years after rallying Wall St. for record donations, Obama is rebuked by Chase’s G.O.P. support.

Many worry Canada’s housing recovery may have been so swift that it will cause another bubble.

Palin calls not considering a 2012 presidential run “absurd,” even though it wasn’t written on her hand.

How a man arrested for attacking his prostitute girlfriend and ex-wife (while on a steroidal rage) became Illinois’s new lieutenant governor.

America’s worst political ads.

How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl spot came together without CGI.

We meant to give it to you when you bought your Prius, in your Prius, to secure the engine block.

This year’s Olympic medals are made from recycled electronic parts.

All my life I have grafted fistfuls of dimly grasped concepts to a series of barely articulated goals. Going whole grain.

TMN seek a winter intern; applications due next Monday.

For Kevin Nguyen, karaoke has taken him from the living room to the Czech Republic—just like Taylor Swift.

“It’s the God-damnedest thing I’ve ever seen.” Vintage Yalies react to their alma mater’s new admissions video.

Scientists make model of dinosaur as it actually was: with feathers.

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