16 June 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 16 Jun 2009 Four biological advances that suggest we'll someday be able to explain how life started. Universal health-care fans fret as Obama's stance becomes murkier. Better profile of Zeke Emanuel and the Office of Management and Budget than you expect. Extravagance in Norway's ritual of youth--"the Russ"--bodes well for the country's economy. In terms of finding a job, research finds being black in America is equivalent to having a felony conviction. Castro's son falls for online dating prank; "impenetrable security" claimed to be breached. From prostitutes to lawn chairs: How red-light districts worldwide have evolved (or not). Today's white paper: Helen DeWitt's "working girl's guide to game theory." I was not the first author to take lit-roids, but neither was William T. Vollmann. Arthur Miller comments on the steroids he took to improve his monologues. Author finds his grandfather in Ulysses on Bloomsday. Reading schedule for anyone participating in Infinite Summer--the super-cool endurance-reading event that all the kids are talking about. Video: Feature-length documentary to focus on the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. If you measure the health of literature by its impact on language, than there's no genre in better condition than SF. A new genre of photography: temporary ski jumps. For those who grill outside the law, lessons suggest you should know your local rules.
