12 March 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 12 Mar 2010 Welcome to Trinidad: The world's newest narcostate. Op: I will never forgive the senile Soviet power for not allowing a single Western mega-rock-group into Moscow in the '70s. New law allows Berlusconi to evade corruption charges again. Must-read: José Saramago's incredible, vicious "The Berlusconi Thing." Victim of financial crisis lives off hotel points. Desirée Rogers's side of the story comes out--victim of one lapse, and perhaps too much love of the limelight. Instapaper for Saturday: Bruni profiles how Katie Lee came about. Fat: The sixth sense. Anatomy of two penpals' mathematical friendship (or try the audio version). Hate mail from third graders about Pluto's planetary demotion. Samples of the Dead's vast archive--"largely the product of happenstance, not design," sniffs the Times--turn up at the N.Y. Historical Society. Homemade 12x CD-R compilation of punk bands fronted by female vocalists from 1977 to 1989. Lucky for Bobby I earned a first aid merit badge in the Boy Scouts. Confessions of a Las Vegas call bear. New underwear made from banana fibers; also incredible: Germany's hanging railway. Citizen jetpack will soon be for sale, only $86,000.
