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NPR's Three-minute Fiction is back for another round. This time the first and last lines of the story are set, and it's up to you to fill in the middle.

On a vaguely related note to the Choose Your Own Adventure ebook thingers a while back, Rob a Bank with Blast Theory

Filed under OMG ridiculous, but I love this news for so many reasons: Harvey Fierstein Is Librettist for Newsies Musical, With Songs by Menken and Feldman. I would watch the face off a stage adaptation of Newsies. I'm not even going to pretend I wouldn't.

I think the New York Times may have changed when they require registration to view articles, because these all came up pages asking me to log in. Still gonna link 'em, though.

A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

A Good Massage Brings Biological Changes, Too

Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part
Mehran’s sisters put on black dresses and head scarves, tied tightly over their ponytails. For Mehran, it’s green pants, a white shirt and a necktie, then a pat from her mother over her spiky, short black hair. After that, her daughter is out the door — as an Afghan boy.