Headlines from March 28, 2013

Google Street View locates a ghost town in Fukushima’s evacuation zone.
Historically religious town allows widows to celebrate “Holi”—India’s festival of color—for the first time. #photos
Richard III’s descendants claim breach of rights, challenge the planned reburial in York Minster.
I used that typewriter for 10 years, actually. Kubrick’s assistant derides The Shining conspiracy theories. #movies
Despite the insistence of those who stand to profit the most from it, there is no internet war apocalypse.
Corporations simulate cyberattacks by emailing cat photos to unsuspecting employees.
Related: How to play kitten games. #tmn
She started spelling out phonetically every foreign acronym or proper name. Life as Sarkozy’s secret speechwriter.
Once one of medicine’s most lucrative specialities, radiology grads are finding themselves in lower demand—and higher debt.
A gay cruising site is called “pleshka”...the statue of Karl Marx on Sverdlov Square was known as “director of the Pleshka.”
The evolution of Mattel’s Little People dolls. #photos
As a boy Chinua Achebe so loved reading that his friends called him “Dictionary.” #obit
Socrates is reborn as a nine-year-old. #video
Annual military drill sends American B-2 Spirit bombers over South Korea amid “heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula.”
Illustrated guide to American-North Korean relations since the cold war. #tmn
Bill and Melinda Gates say the world needs a better condom “that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use.”
Jon Hamm says jokes, news stories, and blogs dedicated to his large penis are below the belt.
Wine consumption steeply declining in France; younger generations prefer water or soda at mealtime.
See also: Climate change is transforming the wine industry, encouraging new wines in strange places. via
Infographic explains the world in 100 people.
Big-wave surfer insists everyone who has lived a life worth living has woken up in the dark. via
Very long story about fallen Civil War general Lew Wallace who became one of the “best-selling novelists in American history.”
Today’s gay-marriage movement gained momentum from Vermont’s “civil” war.
Today: The final Zombie match in the Tournament of Books, judged by Time‘s book critic Lev Grossman. #tob13
Esquire stands by its Osama bin Laden scoop despite other SEALs saying the magazine’s source exaggerated and lied.
If it is really here to stay, at the very least, people could be encouraged to correctly misuse the word. In defense of the colloquial “literally.”
Oldie but goodie: Literally every time Rob Lowe has said “literally” on Parks and Recreation.