Piracy, Bombs, and Vampires [News Bits]

- North Korea is no longer talking.
- Loosening up on Cuba.
- Changes may be coming in credit card land.
- When a blanket in the back just isn't swanky enough.
- Somali rapper: "Why we don't condemn our pirates."
- To those who wondered how long it would be before we got a pirate reality show: not long.
- Lincoln as abolitionist of a different kind.
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