12 November 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 12 Nov 2008 Top intelligence officials expect to be replaced early on by Obama, but are counting on the economic crisis to buy some time. As bailout cash flows, lobbyists now pleading their cases find nobody's especially interested. Obama sets rules for lobbyists: No donations to the transition will be accepted, and they can't work in subjects they've lobbied in. Visiting the White House is one thing; occupying the White House is quite another. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Obama's win. Nobody knows what was served at the first Thanksgiving, but cranberries were everywhere--here's what to do with them. In the early 1950s, Family Circle included a recipe for bageles (their spelling). A short history of the bagel and its many travels. Stop by TMN this Friday to talk with Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad; send in your questions now! Google is tracking flu-related searches to predict outbreaks--follow the results here. Map of where things in Cloverfield happen; map of Marvel Comics characters' NYC dwellings. Obama collects Conan and Spider-Man comics, and other facts you didn't know about President Fanboy. Video: Whodunnit? You'll have to watch twice to see. Conan Doyle bio: "All our lives have been but a preparation for this supreme moment." Hidden since 1945, a collection of recently discovered photographs from Hiroshima and the story behind them. McCartney offers auctionable proof that Eleanor Rigby really existed.
