Headlines from April 6, 2009

Details on five ways hedge funds and banks can game Geithner's toxic-assets plan.
Instapaper for the commute: Jon Lee Anderson's backgrounder on Ahmadinejad's reelection campaign.
Fascinating profile of German evangelist who took care of Pinochet's extremely dirty work.
Today in pop neurology: Ruminations on the someday benefits of deleting memories.
China wants sons; thieves kidnap boys.
Indian parents balking at shipping their daughters to the U.S. to marry.
Writer and Spike Lee-backer remembers Fort Greene before the whites arrived in full.
Photos of miniature television sets.
Essay on the benefits of memorizing a few lines of poetry each morning.
As a poet I've been reading poetry everyday for some 55 years. It is my food and water. Nine questions for the almighty Jim Harrison.
Brooklyn artist Swoon launches her third fleet of "junk rafts."
From 2004, TMN's Sudbanthad talks to Swoon about the street art that made her famous.
BBC reporter apologizes for insulting surprise Grand National winner's teeth.
Video: James Franco destroys a room.
And in case you missed it, "Best Funeral Ever."
India remains Pakistan's priority number one; U.S. hopes money turns them against al Qaeda, toward stability.
Afghanistan's leaders will soon fight elections, agree to rethink oppressive laws against women in light of international pressure.
The council itself is controlled by human rights abusers who like it just the way it is. Why joining the U.N.'s Human Rights Council isn't a smart move for the U.S.
Since its founding in 1980, Monster Cable has fought scores of trademark battles--from Disney (Monsters Inc.) to the Red Sox (the Green Monster).
The Orwell Project: A conceptual artist records everything to prove he isn't a terrorist.
Each photographer lives in one of the 50 states and during the year-long project each photographer will represent the state where they live.
Outside, it could be the real New York or a soundstage New York; inside the cab, it's New York from the footage vault.
He was a hardworking farm boy. She was an Italian supermodel. Ian Frazier has all the vocabulary he'll need to impress her.
Two dozen more bodies found in Lake Wobegon.
Until there is a George W. Bush Presidential Library, there is a George W. Bush Presidential Librarium.
"A Tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library" by Paul Ford.
Unable to locate candidates who fit the moral bill, some of the Christian Right questions its role in politics.
Flaming garbage cans in hip-hop videos: a collection.