1 December 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 01 Dec 2009 After telephoning nearly every world leader, Obama to outline his "endgame" for Afghanistan. To continue ruling the world, what matters is America's budget, not its bellicosity. Excellent account of how Nazi occupation meant opportunity for many Parisians. Op: Sure, the Swiss are xenophobes, but blame the open referendum process for banning minarets. Performance-enhancing drugs disrupt China's cricket-fighting culture. East African albinos hiding to avoid being hunted for appendages thought to possess magical powers. Examples of accidental maps. Helsinki data center to use heat from computer servers to warm city homes. Cormac McCarthy to auction off typewriter that produced all of his oeuvre. The slush pile seems to serve as a sort of representative sampling of the collective unconscious of the American public. Professors don't envy the young--not their demons, their dumb books, their diet colas. Study proves that acidic amygdalas lead to panic, deep breathing is the cure. Account from 1896 of taking mescaline. Highlights summarized (plus full transcripts) from the Royal Society's 350 years of scientific publications. Audio: 40-minute montage of stage banter from Fugazi shows.
