Headlines from March 14, 2011

Thousands of bodies wash up on Japanese shorelines; central bank injects $184 billion into money markets.
Thousands of protesters blocked off Bahrain's financial district.
Alec Baldwin offers career advice to Charlie Sheen: Apologize and beg.
Milan, Ind., which inspired Hoosiers, now has no businesses.
Sixteen ways to use wrists now that watches are obsolete.
Voice-mapping results reassure Britons they're not speaking English like Americans.
Notes on "Dust" and other techniques employed by Hollywood screenwriters' favorite therapist.
Teacher teaching stories to criminals finds all stories come down to crime.
Law & Order data combed for conviction rates, plea bargain likelihood.
Pictures of the outback snapped while listening to Bach cantatas.
Lovely slideshow of Texas off-grid living, home of former New York photographer.
Nadine Gordimer describes the view from her window.
Detroit's art scene debates irony of removing Banksy's art to protect it.
Mental Floss busy last week recounting history of Hands Across America, Democratic Republic of Congo's space program, and Sriracha sauce.
Nothing will ever beat your mom's chicken. Why most of all the world's cooking is comfort food, in notes on modern cuisine.
Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes.
There was almost a festive spirit in the air. Report from a cubicle in Tokyo.
Interesting, brief roundtable on lessons for America from Japan's nuclear crisis.
European officials attempt to quickly reassure citizens an atomic-power emergency is very unlikely.
Stunning photos of devastation in Japan; see also, before and after pictures.
Minds far greater than ours discuss pronouncing the "t" in "tsunami"--and the debate lives on.
Gadhafi has killed 10 times more people than Mubarak in a population less than a 10th the size of Egypt's.
Remnick: America owes clarity to Israel, no less than Israel and the world owe a nation to the Palestinians.
Family of five West Bank Jewish settlers stabbed to death in their sleep; Israeli government promises to increase local home-building.
British people carry an average of nine keys, but can identify only six of them.
Spanish police puzzled why Catholic nuns who'd taken vow of poverty would have $2 million on hand to be stolen.
Jewish prayers getting passengers booted off flights as terror threats.
State's spokesman resigns after calling treatment of WikiLeaker Manning "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid."
Top conservatives attack Palin--"Alaska's Al Sharpton"--and tell Republicans to stop liking what they like.
Artist Christoph Niemann considers in drawings whether he, too, should run.
Founder of APC says the art market's ruined by Russian mafia; he prefers to hang large-scale photographs of pieces he likes.
Twenty sad Etsy men modeling their girlfriends' wares.