14 February 2009: Weekend By The Morning News — 13 Feb 2009 Mapping the perilous steps it takes to escape from North Korea. UN finds more women than men engaged in modern-day slavery. Japanese shoppers account for half of the global luxury market and they're losing interest (see also: new Atlantic online). For the Obama fetishists: Neck of State, cataloguing the president's ties. Pakistani boy gets 22 A-levels to win spot at Cambridge (and Harvard, and Yale). Artists mount revenge campaign to flout copyright laws in Damien Hirst's face after he sues a 16-year-old. See also: the artists' site: Red Rag to a Bull(y). Blogs to study: Making Sense of Darfur; Real Time Economics. Economics has always shaped literature, always will. Tina Brown talks to physician Abraham Verghese about his first book of fiction. From 1972, DeLillo writes inSports Illustrated about a professional gambler from Yonkers. Video: How New Yorkers know if they use their iPhone too much. Photos of Berlin's Kunsthaus Tacheles, squatter art space in danger of losing its lease. Profile of Ryan Trecartin, experimental director. Video: Wine Library's Vaynerchuk on the Today show with Valentine's wine picks. Related: Todd Levin's guide on how to choose wine to pair with marijuana and other foods.
