Headlines from November 18, 2008

Op: Despite the global-economy rhetoric, the G20 is at work on a more inclusive, pro-regulation financial system.
Before Magellan, pre-Balboa, a mapmaking cleric discovered the Pacific from a landlocked city in France.
A decade ago, real rock stars wouldn't license their songs for commercial use; after Moby, it's now common practice.
At 12:01 a.m. on 01/01/00, the Y2K virus will spread throughout all the world's computers. Emails that preclude me from Obama's cabinet.
Scientists from Religulous speak out on their faith, misrepresentation in Maher's movie.
Following Obama win, a rise in racial hate crimes, traffic to white supremacy sites.
At a time of political turmoil, baseball diplomacy in Nicaragua emphasizes the power of shared civic interests.
After painstaking discovery of new pyramids in Egypt, citizens patiently wait for modernity, change.
The physical manifestation of change is powerful--after years of infrastructure neglect, monuments would testify to a new New Deal.
A-bomb testing left a permanent record in tree trunks, humans raised in the atomic age.
What a 2009 depression would look like: Trade soup lines for ER lines, selling apples with watching flat-screen TVs.
"They both just reply 'meh' and keep watching TV." The dictionary welcomes an unenthusiastic word.
The man in the iron lung--who came as the incapacitated father of the brat who steals the Dude's car--picked up his costume prize with a White Russian balanced on his apparatus.
Lieberman gets slap on the wrist rather than losing his homeland security leadership post.
Iraqi government quietly firing its oversight officials.
All options are on the table. Spiegel interview with Israeli Air Force general on Iran's nuclear program.
Army Times on how Obama may live up to his promises to the military.

Chavez's ex-wife runs for mayor on opposition ticket, makes ground with Venezuelan women turned off by "testosterone-pumped politics."