16 December 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 16 Dec 2008 Not for leisurely browsing: "Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience" (explainer). Shoe-tosser's brother explains why he threw shoes. Woman burned by suitor's acid asks for retribution; Iranian court orders five drops of same chemical be placed in her attacker's eyes. Markets' crash partially blamed on "the quant community," a group of "lapsed physicists and mathematical virtuosos." Berlin overrun by boars, but some citizens are turning against the urban boar hunters. "The information age" fails as classic tragedy forms take the stage during Greece's riots. Big Picture riot snapshots. Part one of Pitchfork's 100 best songs of 2008; Ad Age blog's favorite marketing of the year. On the 140th anniversary of the first dinosaur display, does an assembled T. Rex mean anything anymore? Recession and bad times traditionally lead to greater expression of faith, especially for evangelicals. If they want to spread their gospel, one might half-seriously conclude that atheists and agnostics ought to focus on having more children. For last-minute holiday shopping: The IKEA Walkthrough v2.3.1. Want to eat bacon every morning and still avoid heart disease? Acquire a lifelong deficiency of apoC-III. Hollywood clowns can't match the existential crisis of Jim Carrey's career.