Headlines from February 19, 2009

Zimbabwe's stock market reopens, now trading U.S. dollars; article features word, "hexillion."
Op: If college athletics is controlled by a cartel, the players deserve a cut.
As part of a tax-evasion probe, Swiss bank UBS to divulge names of 250 account holders.
China's unemployment problems blamed on job candidates being too choosy.
Egypt releases Mubarak's top rival from prison; kindness of Mubarak's heart not cited as m.o.
Israel pegs lifting Gaza border blockage to release of Shalit.
Christopher Hitchens assaulted by skinhead gang after he defaces Nazi poster in Beirut.
I was born in Chicago in 1969. Shortly afterward, in 1941, my entire family was rounded up. Ben Greenman's Holocaust Memoir.
Old, terrific talk between Jonathan Lethem and Paul Auster.
We're working nights and weekends. Ads don't sell books. In-depth roundtable on publishing today.
On the lamentations and grudges of Wallace Stegner, ignored by the East Coast elites.
A few notes on the difficult life of fashion photographers.
Low-tech fixes for high-tech problems.
Long read on the mysterious causes and cures of "phantom noise."
New proposed Sierra-style entertainment: The Blogosphere Adventure Game.
Investigators recreate Buffalo plane crash, determine crew may have overcorrected for a system meant to protect against flying too slowly.
Greater emphasis on Gross National Happiness advocated: Economic growth, decline can't best represent progress.
The stimulus will be an extra $8 a week into your paycheck; experts advise what you should do with it.
The performances of the top four rats had turned out to be comparable to those of the world's best fund managers.
The Room is the Citizen Kane and Big Lebowski of bad movies.
How special-effects wizards digitally painted Brad Pitt's face on other actors for Benjamin Button.
Presumably the added cells, once they mature, are used to fine-tune or boost problem-solving skills that already exist. Saving new brain cells.
Video: A day in the life of the Abbey Road crosswalk.
Photos: Spotted on subways--odd people, odd things, and odd people with odd things.
Reader mail: What, no headlines love for the PT Cruiser?
Rainforests are much more important--and effective--at sucking in carbon than we thought.
It was a time for fashion and design when Mod and Futurism met the Edwardian. At home with '60s movie spies.
Video: How a watch works.