Headlines from April 26, 2010

Subway numbers reflect aboveground life: Midtown job losses emptied stations; the Bowery boomed with Brooklyn riders.
Shepard Fairey completes mural for his Deitch Projects show, the gallery's last-ever exhibit.
He decided he wanted a skeleton he could take apart. Creating artwork from human bones.
Artist surveys subway riders, prints instructional signs from the "Metropolitan Etiquette Authority."
See also: Our guide to urban etiquette.
Photos from the 1948 and 1949 summers in Fairfield County, Conn.
Houston police officer founds a Caucasian Law Enforcement group, says any officer--except white supremacists--can join.
Feeling the recession, Tulsa P.D. lays off 11% of its force; crime is down, but cases are stalling.
New York's cultural executives remain pleasant about the deep cuts into their seven-figure salaries.
Crime TV shows influence trials by skewing jurors' understanding of evidence.
DNA-altering "cosmoceuticals" are the next step in the anti-aging business.
Story of a ballerina's dance career, and her preservation of the bone that ended it.
First full-face transplant leaves patient with only one visible scar.
Man builds business on assuming online identity of suitors.
Video: A series of the disasters upon which infomercials hinge.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir wins multi-party election.
South Korean ship sunk by bubble jet, attacker unknown; Seoul suspends North Korean tourism jaunts.
Obama reneges on campaign promise, uses euphemisms to discuss the Armenian Genocide.
Op: The public's fluctuating dismay and renewed faith in Wall Street isn't new, but the cycles are speeding up.
The near-pathological need of one surfer to out-cool the other is carried straight from the parking lot to the line-up.
Women feel less happy around their families, especially their parents, perhaps because more is expected of them.
Account of Mark Twain's Greenwich Village house and the 1954 crusade to save it.
Whether someone's a "hoarder" or an "eccentric," they're still "discerning."
Theroux: Scouting is a refuge for those who are bookish in nonacademic ways (rock climbing; fingerprinting).
NYRB Classics find short-term success--and possibly long-term viability--with "literary fetish objects."
Sony to end Japanese sales of the 3.5-inch floppy disk.
Video: New advances for E Ink.
Among Bill Gates's methods for fighting malaria: laser-powered mosquito zapper.
Photos: Northern Lights seen above Eyjafjallajokull's ash plume.