14 January 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 14 Jan 2010 More than $2 million raised so far for Haiti relief by Americans sending text messages. F.B.I. warns of Haiti relief fraud. Pat Robertson's take on Haiti's plight is just a cruder version of what everyone says--even Haitians. Op: If God exists, he's really got it in for Haiti. Fifteen of history's worst disasters; top 10 places you can't visit. Chart of rising and declining freedom worldwide. Op: Kim Jong-il has overplayed his hand; the strategy may be collapsing. Obama to call for levying a "financial crisis responsibility fee" to make banks pay for the bailout fund. Pictures of emotions displayed by bankers on Capitol Hill. The problems with pie charts: easy to abuse, difficult to do well. If you're a fan of science and rationality, enjoy the next few years. Time to reverse the Bush years' war on science. Messud: The story of a novel, and that novel's publication, tells what life is really like in Iran. Sound art created from the tones of an Indian call center. Statistics on British railway suicides. Shabby chic in the U.K.--"The quintessentially British air of decayed gentility"--replaced by sterile, richie-rich minimalism.
