Headlines from February 1, 2011

To celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, the Chinese are buying bunnies for their homes, and wishing they hadn't.
Chinese state video of air force drill splices in Top Gun dogfight footage.
O: "What time of day do you like to record?" K: "Fifty o' clock." Will Oldham interviews R. Kelly.
A visualization of subway train activity in New York.
Photos taken on the New York transit system from 1977 and the summer of 1979.
Related: Excerpts from Amy Arbus's "On the Street" photo column for the Village Voice during the '80s.
The top 10 life forms living on Lady Gaga (and you).
Liposuction popular with military personnel who meet fitness--though not waistline--requirements.
Barbara Bush joins Meghan McCain in opposing Dad on gay marriage.
Nelson Mandela's family, foundation, and homeland in complicated row over the term "routine tests."
Collection of letters between Tolstoy and Gandhi.
I'm 37 years old and out of work in the middle of what, for publishing at least, is a depression. His duties absorbed, a Harper's editor departs.
From Bacon's earliest cipher, secret codes have been ever-present and important throughout history.
Critic fights cultural ignorance, evaporation to open world's first perfume museum.
Crowd estimates varied for Egypt's Tuesday protests; Tahrir Square thought to hold 225,000.
Primer: Civil war threat kindled in Ivory Coast; academics urge media to focus on power, not ethnicities.
Q&A with Cairo protester: Protesters don't have time for Twitter, web, or TV.
South Korea buries animals alive to tackle hoof-and-mouth disease.
China rents pandas to zoos for $1 million a pair, plus $600k premium if pandas mate.
Portraits of Chinese people with brief answers to questions about China.
Google Art Project: bringing "street view" to museums.
Google's mission to reinvent philanthropy became a plan to aggregate information about big problems.
Tower running: in which people race up skyscrapers.
Israeli filmmaker discusses great heist: Palestine book robbery of 1948.
Evening video: Documentary on composer Milton Babbitt.
Mission to disprove tech-forever theory--i.e., tools never die--seeks submissions.
There is also evidence for acute risk factors that trigger a cardiac event. Intense Super Bowl games kill people.
World's oldest woman and proud Texan dies at 114.
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance for the worse. Five favorite phrases from Fish.