13 August 2002

New York's currently: really bloody hungover

U.S. Airways weathers bankruptcy court, makes quick moves to seem stable. Related: American to cut 7,000 jobs, United stock tumbles.

50,000 evacuated from Prague due to imminent flooding.

57 percent of Americans support U.S. invasion of Iraq with ground troops, 36 percent opposed. Related: 31 percent of Britons feel 'vulnerable' in forests.

40 pages of letters exchanged between Kenneth Lay and Bush.

STATS exposes flaws in statistical reporting, including an interesting story on how sex no longer sells.

But there's nothing secondary about the face, and surely this realization is what set John Yarbrough apart on the night that the boy in the sports car came at him with a gun. It's not just that he saw a microexpression that the rest of us would have missed. It's that he took what he saw so seriously that he was able to overcome every self-protective instinct in his body, and hold his fire. 'The Naked Face' by Malcolm Gladwell, probably the best article I've read anywhere this year.

Smoking cigarettes may be taboo among Indian children, but Gutka is cool, well-advertised, and now banned in Bombay for five years.

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