Headlines from March 9, 2010

Most active thing George W. Bush has done in his post-presidency period is to call on Ulster to accept a deal.
Israel announces interest in developing nuclear power, having never admitted being a nuclear power.
Big Pharma giants battle for control of Germany's Ratiopharm.
Memos show the C.I.A.'s waterboarding to be so awful, agents had to grapple with detainees trying to let themselves drown.
Battling "ferocious" competition from Mexico, Jamaica bolsters its tourism business by appealing to Jews.
Slideshow of milestones in women's history and the courageous women behind them.
Scientists say men with wide faces are untrustworthy.
The week in research: Mind-control toys coming soon.
Video: Archive of brain experts trying to explain neuroscience simply.
Ian McEwan's new climate-change novel reduced to about 700 words.
Wallace's letters show a writer who took painstaking care with his art. UT-Austin buys the D.F.W. archive.
Walk-through of a spectacular treehouse.
A very brief history of the pocket.
Video: Child probably shouldn't have been given a Batman costume.
Videos and investigative notes on the violence near Jos.
Sachs's Millennium Villages are successfull--"islands of success in a sea of failure," say detractors.
Togo experiences the latest seemingly fraudulent election followed by mass protest and government crackdown.
Chart: How everyday life in Iraq has changed.
Meet Hekmatyar: The Afghan warlord that D.C. is alternately courting or attempting to kill.
Instapaper for the commute: Mir Hossein Mousavi is Iran's Nelson Mandela.
Supreme Court justices are like baseball commissioners, or, a history of the judge-umpire analogy.
The value of a blocked shot and other highlights from MIT's symposium on sports economics.
The war in international exit signs is a matter of red vs. green, letters vs. running men.
B.R. Myers's collection of North Korean propaganda posters.
Krabattophily: An appreciation in photographs for outdoor mattresses (even more).
Citizen scientists discover interstellar dust.
The future of printing is pointing pointing to 3*TYPE.
Roz Chast's A-to-Z disease primer may or may not help you sleep better.
Selection of space-age aviation industry advertisements.
Coffee-powered car.