15 October 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 15 Oct 2009 Britain's far-right National Party agrees to admit nonwhite people as members. Moscow to blow snow clouds away from the city center, banishing powder to the surrounding region. Mao's grandson's blog reveals an unwavering Mao obsession. Willie Nelson's corn-powered tour bus is a wi-fi hotspot. Op: The web can lengthen attention spans and develop rich inner lives in attentive users; "smart people are doing wonderful things." Twitter users defy British ban on free speech; burnt banana cake becomes small price to pay. More children's fiction than adult fiction was submitted for the National Book Awards. Borrowing e-books from libraries is growing, though both publishers and librarians balk at proposed pricing models. Decent roundtable on e-books; Wolf and Gelernter worth reading. Better: E-books will work when they connect me to everything my favorite authors write. The Kakutani two-step: Publishing's most powerful critic has a blind spot. Bershon: How girls feel at 13 while posing for family portraits. Having children actually makes women less happy. Ehrenreich on feminism and misery. All magazine models, plus-sized or not, affect women's self-esteem--the underweight women feel better.
