Headlines from January 18, 2008

Economist review of "An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution."
Donatella Versace says Russian women no longer like bling.
Where the presidential candidates stand on science issues.
In today's Video Digest, Meave Gallagher on the role of misogyny in the presidential race; Lauren Frey with political--and poetical--Non-Expert advice.
Print for the commute home: "Don’t worry," one of my teachers told me half-jokingly. "Arabic is only hard for the first 10 years. After that it gets easier."
Connections between the use of "yo" in Baltimore (and thus, The Wire) and Kerouac's On The Road.
The story of Paul Potts ever since he swapped selling phones for singing opera.
The story of a time capsule--from 1791.
Scientists, eyes darting around shiftily, are close to discovering why marijuana creates paranoia.
Signs you may have climate change anxiety disorder.
We agreed to go along with the joke and hang it for a short time in between the bathrooms. Stephen Colbert's portrait goes up in the National Portrait Gallery.
Dear guardians of our nation's nuclear weapon plants, please stop sleeping on the job. Love, TMN. (And: Dear New York Sun, thank you for your books section.)
Yes, the manila Macbook Air notebook sleeve has been developed; how other, fatter laptops are reacting to the Macbook Air.
Why blogs aren't all bad: Antarctic Journal.
Former chess champion Bobby Fischer dies, age 64; from 2005: "Bobby and me."
Play-by-play clickthrough of game six of Fischer's 1972 world championship victory.
Ross Perot "still has some scores to settle"--by the way, he's voting for Romney.
CIA believes Bhutto was killed by the group led by Pakistani Taliban commander Mahsud.
White House discredits 2005 report that states 473 days of government emails have gone missing.
Yes, pigeons and rats carry disease, but perhaps not as many as expected--and sometimes they'll help clean the apartment, too.
Among the responses to an article on what not to wear to a job interview: Women in pants are like men without ties.
"It makes it look like we're a responsible business." New American Apparel ads criticized not for skin exposure, but for promoting immigration reform.
Study shows over half of Hispanics in the U.S. "worry that they or a loved one could be deported."
Curing one woman's musicogenic epilepsy: 10 grand mal seizures per day, and it's all Sean Paul's fault.
Audio: The depressing outcome of a study on depressing news about anti-depressants: Articles with negative results are less likely to make it to medical journals.
The other, lovely side to the thoughtful "Bra Mitzvah: Becoming a Man Through Lingerie."
Kraft introduces new "Kraft Doubles for Couples."
Michael Lewis on the unforeseen benefits of a vasectomy.