Headlines from December 7, 2010

Mammoth discrimination suit against Walmart could cost the corporation billions, change the course of class action.
Michelle Rhee takes her education battle nationwide, eager to reduce unions to irrelevancy.
In Germany's battle for TV ratings, a contestant is accidentally run over by his father on a bet.
But does anyone other than Brûlé actually live this life? Profile of the Wallpaper, Monocle founder, who enjoys success where print, hedonism meet.
The income of a medieval English worker is double that of today's workers in Zaire and Burundi.
Ted Cox on the rhetorical questions, religious questioning, and ex-gay culture at a gay-to-straight camp.
Russia's skinhead culture is terrifyingly violent--and possibly supported by the authorities.
Scientists speculate ancient Peruvians, driven by El Niño, performed child sacrifice.
Op: Resource-rich countries don't suffer from a resource curse, they suffer from bad governments.
Jonah Lehrer explains how our brains are programmed to fear uncertainty.
Lennon was politically ambivalent, not the peacemaker we imagine him as today.
Twenty-seven years after Tintin creator's death, tintinologists are still trying to figure out who he was based on.
Meet Minnesota's "lost Canadians," the result of a century-old muddled treaty that blurred the border.
Researchers fight political turmoil to comb the cliffs of Afghanistan in search of a famed Buddha statue.
German parliament not ready to drop case of German citizen dying in U.S. drone attack.
Attorney overseeing BP and Sept. 11 funds pegs $3 million for a miner as "standard operating procedure."
Increasingly, park rangers' biggest threat in the wild is a human with a gun in the middle of nowhere.
By inviting clergy to bless its jinxed location, New York Burger Co. got its wish for press attention.
Brazil to recognize Palestinian statehood on Friday, followed by Argentina on Monday and Uruguay "sometime next year."
Video: Yeshiva University's all-male a cappella group, the Maccabeats, create the viral hit of the Hanukkah season.
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To better assimilate with their subjects, Chinese researchers dress as pandas.
Related: Pandas lost their taste for flesh about 4.2 million years ago.
Inside the self-help corporate culture of Panda Express.
Researchers find an aspirin a day may also prevent a range of cancers.
As innovations continue, the art of being a movie projectionist slowly dies.
"Sure enough, they began to die." Doonesbury outlives out-of-touch editors who condemned it in the '70s.