14 April 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 14 Apr 2008 Iraqi government fires 1,300 soldiers and policemen for refusing to fight during last month's violence in Basra. Now that Mugabe's on his way out, which world dictator will follow him? If predictions are correct, a food crisis would overshadow all political and economic worries; some of that food is going into U.S. cars. Servers and their air conditioners suck electricity that's fed by coal: The digital world needs an energy diet. No coal-fueled plant in the U.S. is proposed without an environmental lawyer ready to bite; now the industry is biting back. To track the flame's slow assault on the atmosphere, we created a map that charts its total carbon emissions as it flies. Calculating the Olympic torch's footprint. Lonely Planet finds no inaccuracies in books by author who claims he never visited one of the countries he covered. Digging into at the final menu served to first-class passengers aboard the Titanic, which sank 96 years ago today. Essay: Noël Coward was a spy--and so was Cary Grant. Occasionally confusing stick figure signs. Elevators are built with safety in mind--and we still imagine what we'd do in a free fall. "What can [white people] say to me that's worse than what their grandfather said?" Inside Bill Cosby's "call-out" events. A list of the 25 meetings between popes and U.S. presidents.
