Headlines from September 1, 2009

Attorney General plans new focus on civil rights cases in areas where minorities continue to fare poorly.
"Steven L. Anderson is going to pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell." The real story about the man who took guns to an Obama speech.
Julie Myerson's son seeks legal protection for her memoir about his teenage indiscretions.
TV station says video of Michael Jackson hopping out of a coroner's van was an experiment in rumor-mongering.
Catastrophic illness depresses and disgusts your family, medical professionals, and...your health-insurance provider.
Death panels are a crucial and integral part of any health care reform. Town hall meeting on health care reform, Berlin, 1939.

Ahead of a commemoration of the start of World War II, Putin calls the Nazi-Soviet pact to divide Poland immoral.
A Russian fairy tale has inspired the country's citizens to live eco-friendly lives.
The No Child Left Behind Act succeeded in making army recruiters privy to information about millions of possible enlistees.
An investigation of crisis pregnancy centers, which try to convince unwed pregnant women to give their babies to conservative Christian couples.
The website Hello From Earth allows you to text life on another planet, but there are no guarantees of a reply.
Paris finds success in making citizens pick up after their pets; the next frontier is curbing public urination.
Why Reading Rainbow is no more: The show didn't teach children how to read, it taught them why to read.
Notes on the appeal of one-way space travel, especially if working on Mars would be better than dying at home.
Op: Russia still envisions itself an empire, and its way of seeking relevance is shortsighted.
Slate's Press Box calls foul on the Journal's hair-snipping story from yesterday.
Instapaper for the commute: On the sticky, tricky middle ground between opposing imperialism and protecting human rights.
Winner of PEN's 2009 Prison Writing Contest, "I Wore Chains to My Father's Funeral."
The "Jabberwocky," spell-checked (vs. the original)
New reason to save newspapers: Who else will fight, and pay, to open courtrooms?
How to use your Facebook status "to maximum status-signifying effect."
Podcast: "This Week in the History of Psychology."
Rundown of why it may be time to quit social media.
Contemporary clichés to be found in Flickr photographs.
Op: Marijuana's not only gone mainstream, it could be the next Prozac if Big Pharm could just get our amygdala high.
German body-parts brokerage company prices the average humerus at 42 euros.
Clay Risen's report on the death of anarchy in Berlin.