10 December 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 10 Dec 2008 When even Tutu says military intervention may be necessary, Africa leaders look to oust Mugabe. GM has more workers outside the U.S. than in it, and its revenue is up overseas. The E.U. may outrank Russia by every objective measure, but its size means it's outflanked and out-gamed. Slideshow: 61-year-old truck driver builds first accurate replica of Hiroshima bomb. Nazi schematics uncovered for bomber plane much like a "pub dart." There aren't more depressed people now, just more people who want treatment. To become a competent surgeon in one fifth of the time once needed either requires genius, intensive practice, or lower standards. We are not geniuses. Print for the commute: Gates on how the Pentagon should focus: on unconventional conflicts, and on modesty. How the FBI's wiretap network works. Nobody says "Wegen des Fahrrads" (because of the bikes), rather "wegen dem Fahrrads" ('cause of them bikes). On the difficulties of translating The Wire into German. How to make vile-tasting prison wine from oranges. Op: It would be nice if all the earnest self-improvers found less time for self-promotion. Writers' and artists' daily routines blogged.
