Headlines from March 12, 2010

Welcome to Trinidad: The world's newest narcostate.
Op: I will never forgive the senile Soviet power for not allowing a single Western mega-rock-group into Moscow in the '70s.
New law allows Berlusconi to evade corruption charges again.
Must-read: José Saramago's incredible, vicious "The Berlusconi Thing."
Victim of financial crisis lives off hotel points.
Desirée Rogers's side of the story comes out--victim of one lapse, and perhaps too much love of the limelight.
Instapaper for Saturday: Bruni profiles how Katie Lee came about.
Fat: The sixth sense.
Anatomy of two penpals' mathematical friendship (or try the audio version).
Hate mail from third graders about Pluto's planetary demotion.
Samples of the Dead's vast archive--"largely the product of happenstance, not design," sniffs the Times--turn up at the N.Y. Historical Society.
Homemade 12x CD-R compilation of punk bands fronted by female vocalists from 1977 to 1989.
Lucky for Bobby I earned a first aid merit badge in the Boy Scouts. Confessions of a Las Vegas call bear.
New underwear made from banana fibers; also incredible: Germany's hanging railway.
Citizen jetpack will soon be for sale, only $86,000.