16 April 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 16 Apr 2009 Black carbon--soot--held responsible for 18 percent of the planet's warming. China plays the long game by stepping vigorously into financing South American development, as it has in Asia and Africa. The pirates could only lament their littleness before the vast number of dolphins. Chinese news agency says dolphins saved merchant ship. TMN's Paul Ford interviews a mine-sweeping dolphin. Using E.M. Forster's account of the 1825 London banking crisis to view today's turmoil. Reminder of the real horror of H.P. Lovecraft's life: his proud racism. Part of what's driving the current gun-shopping craze is people investing in weapons like they're stocks. When elected representatives and TV pundits warn citizens to take up arms, citizens cannot really be faulted for taking up arms in response. Photos documenting the return of U.S. war dead. Considering Gary Locke's role in administering the decennial census in light of his family's remarkable history. I like slow food, but I am incredibly fast. Interview with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. Reasons why people and cities like streetcars. Attention, home cooks: TV cooking is a charade, so don't fret if your chopping skills leave onions destroyed. Gallery of amusingly defaced street signs. Italian scholar finds portrait of Da Vinci in cathedral window; story of how the Mona Lisa was stolen (and later recovered) in 1911. Collection of school portraits with laser backdrops.
