Headlines from March 16, 2010

George Mitchell's return to the Middle East now indefinitely postponed.
Construction will continue in Jerusalem as this has been the case over the past 42 years.
Op: Obama, please tone down the rhetoric; Netanyahu, cancel the building in Ramat Shlomo.
Kim Jong-un is North Korea's new leader, and anyone else with the name "Jong-un" has been instructed to change it.
"I got him, I got him" translates remarkably well from Arabic, as does "Shoot the motherfucker!"
Instapaper for the commute: Toobin's profile of Justice Stevens.
Karl Rove's new book uses a font developed in France.
France's SNCF says more than 100 died in a train explosion--a training exercise gone awry.
ABE is survived by a new generation of autonomous underwater vehicles. A Times obituary for an adventuring robot.
Sooner or later, helium will be more precious than gold, and it's abundant in America.
Prisoners use cell phones to run gangs and order killings, but jamming cell phones in prisons is illegal.
"Man With Immense Pink Genitalia Sculpture Gently Rebuffed at Museum."
Development of new racial slurs not keeping pace with mixed-race births.
Videos: PS22 Chorus does Phoenix's "Lisztomania"; trailer for Treme.
More than 50 new corruption cases opened against Americans who bilked Iraq reconstruction projects.
Washington hopes Obama has a strategy for handling Netanyahu; AIPAC allies urge drawdown.
Hitchens: Let's not forget that Ratzinger made it a crime to report child rape.
Op: China will become the new Middle East, though Beijing appears not yet ready or willing to be a world leader.
Japan has poked USSR. World War II as enacted on Facebook.
Instapaper for the commute: Life of a lady king in Ghana. (See also: That's what Bea said.)
New white-collar career path: interim executive.
Dick Armey's history of socialism a tad flawed; Clarence Thomas's wife starts a tea-party nonprofit (interview).
What you're really paying for when you buy $300 jeans: L.A. drama.
Roald Dahl was a neurology writer, and even helped design a shunt valve.
You're cutting off noses now? Set visit for new video by Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah.
Video: Piano improvisation on ChatRoulette.
Monuments repaired with Lego.
Op: Because digital networks measure our place, we know exactly who the powerful people are; it's like high-school, except on a massive scale.