Headlines from April 14, 2008

What happened to Disney magic? Disney is taking it away. Users devastated that Disney is shutting down its (online) magic kingdom (see comments).
Bush's security adviser calls skipping the Olympics a cop-out.
Zimbabwe court refuses to release vote results; Mbeki's denial inspires outrage.
With corrupt candidates, Italian voters remain unenthusiastic about the election.
Stuff Korean people like.
Real books written by fake people--soap opera characters, in fact.
Robert Birnbaum on what to read this week, with picks from Susanna Moore.
Selected from her new picture book about post-graduation misery, a gallery from Kate T. Williamson.
Can Franken summon enough self-control to establish a bulwark in Minnesota?
West Wing writer-producer imagines what the Democratic Convention will look like.
New imagination for new airport designs in Beijing and Madrid.
How female entrepreneurship runs in the Middle East.
Video: Erykah Badu on what you need to do to sell your music.
Tattoos you need to get to be a hardcore scientist these days.
Print for the commute: How black holes work and look, or so we think. See also, everything you need to know about disgust.
Iraqi government fires 1,300 soldiers and policemen for refusing to fight during last month's violence in Basra.
Now that Mugabe's on his way out, which world dictator will follow him?
If predictions are correct, a food crisis would overshadow all political and economic worries; some of that food is going into U.S. cars.
Servers and their air conditioners suck electricity that's fed by coal: The digital world needs an energy diet.
No coal-fueled plant in the U.S. is proposed without an environmental lawyer ready to bite; now the industry is biting back.
To track the flame's slow assault on the atmosphere, we created a map that charts its total carbon emissions as it flies. Calculating the Olympic torch's footprint.
Lonely Planet finds no inaccuracies in books by author who claims he never visited one of the countries he covered.
Digging into at the final menu served to first-class passengers aboard the Titanic, which sank 96 years ago today.
Essay: Noël Coward was a spy--and so was Cary Grant.
Occasionally confusing stick figure signs.
Elevators are built with safety in mind--and we still imagine what we'd do in a free fall.
"What can [white people] say to me that's worse than what their grandfather said?" Inside Bill Cosby's "call-out" events.
A list of the 25 meetings between popes and U.S. presidents.