16 December 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 15 Dec 2010 Among O.E.C.D. countries, Germany's young have lowest unemployment rate due to apprenticeship system. South Carolina's DeMint says Christian government employees shouldn't be forced to work 10 days before Christmas. Profile of San Francisco's murderer groupie, former fiancé of John Mark Karr. Analysis says N.R.A. is perhaps D.C.'s most powerful lobby, able to intimidate everyone, including the president. Bad paintings of Barack Obama. Scientists hope colony of specially bred animals and engineered viruses will help cure AIDS soon. Sacks: One doesn't tend to think of oneself of having a condition. Compelling audio explanation tells why, mathematically, altruism doesn't exist in biology. How early success set "child authoress" Barbara Follet on path from child prodigy to missing person. Audio: Inspiring story of a young Mexican-American who decided to walk from Ecuador to North Carolina. Exotic traveling narration meets Timbuktu's salt merchants, bibliophiles, and marabouts. I dread packing just as much as I did when I started. Things even long-term travel can't fix. Books to read if you're deploying to Afghanistan (and why Wolf Hall is a good idea to pack). Interior pictures of office refrigerators; every 2010 cover of Vogue mashed together. Fifteen best data visualizations of 2010; photo of the year: Monkey rescues puppy from gas explosion.
