Headlines from September 9, 2010

At the U.S. Open, winning shots are down, unforced errors are up, and the wind is to blame.
"Our customers have never been concerned with why." MTA introduces new service change posters, "strained language" and all.
West Vancouver officials install a new kind of speed bump: an optical illusion of a child playing in the street.
Military bases ban sales of a video game that lets players take the role of the Taliban and shoot U.S. troops.
In 1918, British leaders' support for the creation of Israel was based as much on anti-semitism as a desire to win the war.
Crunching online dating profiles reveals the real stuff white people like: Tom Clancy, golfing, and Phish.
Stylists, designers flock to gaptoothed models--either for their authenticity or something different.
The Times collects readers' photos from the first day of school.
U.S. restaurants see potential in mobile food--Sizzler and Subway will soon be slinging their wares from trucks.
A history of condiments, starting with ancient Roman fish sauce.
Examples of product placement in books from Mansfield Park (alpaca umbrella) to Dracula (blood mixture).
From the attic: How to use product placement in a serial-killer movie script.
Superstar parachutist prepares to raise $3 million for a jump without a parachute.
Obama comes out against Florida Koran-burning plan: "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaeda.
Op: U.S. should support Rwandans without boosting Kagame, whose intentions may not be known until 2017.
Laredo kid became brutal Mexican drug lord; brother says he's got rules against killing enemies' families.
Save for the commute: Michael Lewis goes to Greece, where no one can be trusted.
Notes on the classic space photograph requested by Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot."
Twitter employee says Justin Bieber uses 3% of the company's infrastructure.
Men's pants lie about their size, and the men who wear them feel good about the lie.
An extraordinary politician who had too successfully pretended to be normal. Review of Blair's memoir by TLS's Peter Stothard.
Lehrer: E-readers would be improved, and so would our minds, if reading them was more difficult.
Hey, New Yorkers: Catch TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's reading next week with Maud Newton.
Round-up of Scott Rudin's collection of movie-rights to novels that haven't become movies.
Happy Days writer of episode when Fonzie jumps the shark says the episode deserves better.
Video: Student confirms Pavlov's conditioning theory with pellet gun, noisemaker, and roommate.
At every match, Mongolian wrestlers pay tribute to an undefeated, 13th-century wrestler queen.
Sally Feldman investigates the legend of a She-Pope.
Mortuary technician on how to reassemble corpse faces and make people look "at peace."
TMN's Nicole Pasulka learns how to embalm a body.