10 May 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 10 May 2010 War on AIDS crumbling; for every 100 people put on treatment, 250 are newly infected. Long read: Opacity of Mexico's "drug war" makes legends out of gangsters. See also: John Murray's Ciudad Juarez news tracking. Obama likes Kagan's "intellectual heft" to be Supreme (see career timeline). Seven conservative thinking points about Kagan find no basis to hope for a secret Tory. Moral traditionalism fails to prevent early childbirths, increases family breakdown while reducing education and earning. Doctors could dilute medications and get the same results. On the power of the placebo. Studies find people value regret, as do marketers ("I could have had a V8"). Lying in a dating profile increases dating likelihood; preferences don't correlate with what people like anyway. I predict a new genre of internet porn involving human/Neanderthal encounters! Q&A about Neanderthal DNA. Tour of Times Square's security features--"hundreds, if not a thousand video cameras." R.I.P. Lena Horne. Colm Tóibín sits with MoMA's Marina Abramovic (people are still crying); Michael Connelly scouts L.A. Cityscapes from video games. You come up, you're welcome, but you're on your own. Wynton Marsalis's door is always open to neighbors. Collection of Johnny Marr's various guitars. Unrelated to all of the above: Reasonably complete definition of blood squirt.
