Headlines from June 2, 2011

He made your job easy some nights. ESPN writers share "random acts of Shaqness."
A panda pregnancy at the National Zoo is a longshot, but the panda keepers there are ready for the unexpected.
Jessa Crispin remembers Sassy, hopes Jane's new magazine doesn't get drunk and flirt with the waitstaff.
Mike Deri Smith on airport musical chairs in Berlin, where three have closed in five years.
Australia plans to repackage cigarettes in an unappealing green, hoping design will win out over addiction.
One benefit of high oil prices: More expensive plastic could mean fewer annoying "clamshell" product packages.
Like every struggling mom-and-pop, Korean grocers are finding their New York dominance quickly waning.
Op: Philo-Semitism--the love of Jews--is deeply anti-Semitic when used by politicians to court power.
Erik Bryan interviews Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter about On Lamb, their book of poetry culled from a Charles Lamb biography.
The campsite is a contradiction that makes people feel like they're outdoors with the convenience of being indoors.
"Unless you're sharing your phone with other people, there's nothing to worry about." New devices for germophobe technophiles.
How pub quizzes can beat smartphones--includes a Google-proof quiz.
Brian Eno guest DJs on NPR.
Archaeologists believe they may have uncovered the Mona Lisa's skeleton.
Retired Japanese engineers over 60 volunteer to face Fukushima's radiation.
Op: Medicine trains, hires, and pays doctors to be cowboys, but it's pit crews that patients need.
Review of studies used by World Health Organisation agency to prove cell phones "possibly" cause cancer.
Audio: New Radiolab episode, "Talking to Machines."
How a stem-cell transplant "cured" a man of HIV and has the world talking about an AIDS cure.
I was pretty much invisible no matter what I wore. Egyptian woman tours Europe without her hijab.
Chile to investigate claims that Pinochet's agents killed Pablo Neruda.
Op: The "Jane Austen Education" may work, but the world still contains plenty of well-read jerks.
"Kinda random" Twitter posts matched with "somewhat less than random" Peanuts comic strips.
Gene Hackman unlikely to do another movie, unless it's in his house.
Video: Plato analysis and cat.
Two answers to the question "why do we need to learn this?" and the implications of both.
Physics analysis of filmed half-court shot by TV reporter.
Big pictures of Endeavour's final mission; see also: welfare economics of elevator travel.
Tour of Agatha Christie's summer home.