10 March 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 10 Mar 2008 South Africa drags its feet on an AIDS treatment that cuts mother-child transmission rates by 25 percent--even jailing those doctors who use it. Bush makes his "first and final performance" as a stage singer at the Gridiron Club; he tap-dances too. The woman I had only recently begun sleeping with was a hired killer and there was a gun on my bedside table. Photojournalist's story of falling for a Colombian assassin. Commercial, in-print, and completely disastrous adventures in Photoshop. The sleeping child in Clinton's TV spot is actually a 17-year-old Obama supporter. Teachers have come to make up for what parents lack, trading education for socialization. California court decides that, in many situations, homeschooling has long been illegal. Questionable Italian court sanctions lying as a method of covering up an affair. Italian referee goes into hiding after attack on lookalike bank manager. "I've had that piece of wood in my evidence room for all these years." Confession to 1893 murder discovered behind window molding, made public. Europe's warm winter puts sled dogs out of work. Audio: Another reason to fear global warming--pythons could colonize a third of the U.S. Another reason to love your D.C. landlords--they can make money when they kick you out. Fashion might be less an anomaly of otherwise rational and independent preferences than it is an evolved sociocultural mechanism. The economics of fashion means serious business.
