12 February 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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The new administration passes its first political test: Congress agrees on $790 billion stimulus package, creating 3.5 million jobs.
Kadima's Tzipi Livni, hoping to be Israel's Barack Obama, ended up as Israel's Al Gore. In Israeli election, ideology is the only clear loser.
Mugabe cedes power, Tsvangirai sworn in as Zimbabwean PM, claiming premiership of "transitional government."
Muzak files for bankruptcy; see also: the terrific 2006 New Yorker profile of the company.
As 401(k)s and social security vie for space in the toilet, advisors brew up hybrid pensions that would pay out over a lifetime.
Zakaria: Canada thrives on crisis after responsibility, avoidance of risk, smart immigration policy.
Bolivians migrate to the cities, preferring less extreme urban poverty, empowerment, to rural health.
"I've never heard of a building being cut in half before." Norman Foster's Las Vegas hotel forced to improvise after mistakes.
When the Guggenheim won't let you shoot your movie in the rotunda, you have to build your own.
Los Angeles fertility clinic says it will soon let couples select the gender and physical traits of babies.
Mister Rogers...read it and crossed it all out and wrote a sentence addressed directly to the doctors who would be reading it: "You were a child once, too."
A gallery of blank cassette tape inserts.
What not to ask Salman Rushdie on Valentine's Day.
