1 May 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Behind-the-scenes saga of public health officials tracking swine flu from day one.
Hoping to appear strong, Egypt orders all its pigs slaughtered, and then is mocked for a dumb reaction.
The more Obama raises U.S. government spending, the better Canada looks to private investors.
Saturday morning read: Sri Lankan novelist Romesh Gunesekera writes a dirge for his country.
Justice Souter retiring, says he's sick of Washington D.C., wants to resume climbing Mount Washington.
High-altitude mountaineering causes brain damage, but a study suggests Sherpa highlanders have better brain protection.
Speculation on Souter's replacement.
Profile of Clinton as State boss: constantly traveling, playing "mayor of a good-sized small city."
The consensus against torture is one of our civilization's few unqualified moral advances, and it's a consensus won only after centuries of horror and brutality.
Long profile of Sacha Baron Cohen, both as a family man and a sadist, anticipates a masterpiece in Bruno.
A history of white boys in rap, and an addendum.
Snowball, the cockatoo who dances to the Backstreet Boys, inspires pathbreaking neuroscience studies.
Photos of a canned whole chicken.
If you like jjjjound ("a who's who, what's what type of livin'"), you're going to love mmmmound ("if it piles up, we post it.").
