13 September 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 13 Sep 2010 Academic physicians take big pharma's money for special treatment, great food, and ego stroking. Iraq to pay $400 million to Americans traumatized or tortured by Saddam. Despite industry of North Korea watchers, nobody knows age or appearance of its next leader. Inmates on death row are not told when they will be executed until the last minute. How Japan executes. Hitchens on his current life: "lawyers in the morning and doctors in the afternoon." I really don't miss it. Lunch with Tony Blair Douglas Coupland's dictionary of the near future. See also: TMN's guide to New York jargon. Before and after images of San Francisco's San Bruno neighborhood, burned by massive fire. Op: Huge amount of child abuse in the Catholic church is due to the perpetrators knowing they will get away with it. The largest group of American Muslims is also the most ignored: African-Americans. Critic "exhausted and unsatisfied" by James Ellroy's look at his sexual history. Reporter surveys cannibals' tasting notes, deduces that humans taste like pork. Figs are: "inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps." Once you get your genome sequenced, there's not much left to do afterward.
