Headlines from March 9, 2011

Guatemala's first lady to pull a Hillary and run for president, but needs to challenge an anti-succession law.
Iranian shipment of rockets to the Taliban intercepted.
Universal decides not to back del Toro's $150-million adaptation of Lovecraft's "Madness" after del Toro insists on a "hard 'R'" rating.
Producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark fire director Taymor after further delays drive up the price tag.
Following up on yesterday's news, Mexico's youngest police chief seeks asylum in the U.S.
Thirteen killed after Muslim mob attacks Christians protesting in Cairo.
It's not so much that American public life is more idiotic. It's that so much more of American life is public.
Indignez-Vous! pamphlet that rocked France this year to be followed this week by Engagez-Vous!.
Just sayin': Passive-agressive office notes for Wednesday.
Pocket-sized book is hip again after 500-year popularity plateau.
Pictures of dystopian finds at a dollar store.
U.K. scare of the week: Oils from printing on paper later recycled into cereal boxes, thereby leaching into food.
TMN's Clay Risen on the rise of women brewers.
Index shows country houses featured in Kubrick films.
Yemeni police shoot at least 50 attempting to join larger protest group at Sanaa University.
Malta, with strong business ties to the region, delaying E.U. sanction-setting against Libya.
Arab women "massively" participating in current revolutions, determined their efforts won't be forgotten.
Smithsonian curator sent to Wisconsin to collect protest signs.
Notes from "Nuclear Security in Pakistan: Issues and Implications," about the future's most likely apocalypse.
West Africa, where peace is fragile, fears civil war spreading from Ivory Coast.
Proven: Old people more likely to run you over.
"Slugging," or, the opposite of road rage: where people cooperate to commute in D.C. for access to high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
Court ruling supports cycling's new antidoping program: biological passports that track blood values.
Chart: If you don't have a passport, you may have diabetes.
Google engineers slowly--actually, very quickly--approaching Babel fish: true simultaneous machine translation.
"You Are Listening to Los Angeles"--ambient music mixed with live police radio.
Music streamed from 469 artists on Bandcamp playing at this year's SXSW.
Better yet: Paul Ford's six-word reviews of 1,302 SXSW mp3s from 2009, same for 2008 (763 songs).
Researchers confirm almost everyone can distinguish between abstract art and art made by animals (quiz included).
Video: Kinetic wave sculptures.