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Today: May 17, 2011 The Rosslyn Code The real mystery lurking in the chapel where Dan Brown set The Da Vinci Code. By Chris Wilson READ FULL STORY | More Life Abolish the Debt Ceiling! It's a pointless, dangerous historical relic. By Annie Lowrey READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech French Twist Why do so many smart, sane people think Nicolas Sarkozy set up DSK? By Anne Applebaum READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics How To Fund Scientific Research To Produce Great Ideas, Not Just Pretty Good Ones What Kind of Hotel Room Do You Get for $3,000? Lithwick: The Obamacare Fight Is Making Me Lose My Faith in the American Judicial System The Sexual Indiscretions Politicians Can Get Away With in France and America Advertisement Help! My Mother's Last Words Were About Her Cat, Not Me.   Briefing Obama's town hall, Bin Laden's raid, and Twitter foolishness: The week's most interesting Slate stories. Doctors injected stem cells into pitcher Bartolo Colon's injured arm. Does that really work? News & Politics Dominique Strauss Kahn sexual assault: How conspiracy theorists assume his alleged victim is guilty. Mike Huckabee: Does his decision not to run mark the end of compassionate conservatism? Arts "Sandwich Notch Road, Two Days Before Christmas" "Playboy Bunny" Amber Heard Responds to Maureen Dowd: fun, fun, fun at the NBC upfronts. Life Brawling bridesmaids, broke friends, and reckless exes—Friend or Foe offers advice at Slate.com. The real Da Vinci Code: Are the chapel's mysterious stone symbols a musical score? Science The fornix and the vulva cerebri: Naughty names for neuroanatomy. Osama Bin Laden's "porn" as propaganda: Is it more damning than his terrorism? Podcasts & Video Digital Manners: How Late Is Too Late to Text? Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Bulls, Jose Bautista, Rick Welts, and the decline of the sports nickname.

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