14 January 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 14 Jan 2008 No matter our sentimental ideas about our cell phones, we rarely consider where they go when they die. In today's TMN Gallery, portraits of people who speak to the dead. Small-town mayors speak of their ideas of Bloomberg. Loquacity equals good leadership--and other myths about eloquence in politics. The two largest suppliers of crude to the U.S. are Canada and Mexico, neither known as a belligerent terrorist haven. Myths about the oil habit. Four things learned about economics in 2007. Arguments for using the GDP to measure recession-ness. Absent from the argument about Cosby's accusations are economic facts: How do races really spend on "visible goods" with regards to their neighbors? Op: To see a young daughter, faced with the terrible fact of a pregnancy, unscathed by it and completely her old self again was magical. And that’s why Juno is a fairy tale. Print for the commute: Pinker on the current challenges in mixing morals with realism and science. Another case for printing: terrible details behind the MySpace Suicide Hoax. In today's Digest, Robert Birnbaum on Upton Sinclair, Tom Waits, and the week in printing materials. Completely unrelated video: How to make tofu.
