16 March 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 16 Mar 2010 George Mitchell's return to the Middle East now indefinitely postponed. Construction will continue in Jerusalem as this has been the case over the past 42 years. Op: Obama, please tone down the rhetoric; Netanyahu, cancel the building in Ramat Shlomo. Kim Jong-un is North Korea's new leader, and anyone else with the name "Jong-un" has been instructed to change it. "I got him, I got him" translates remarkably well from Arabic, as does "Shoot the motherfucker!" Instapaper for the commute: Toobin's profile of Justice Stevens. Karl Rove's new book uses a font developed in France. France's SNCF says more than 100 died in a train explosion--a training exercise gone awry. ABE is survived by a new generation of autonomous underwater vehicles. A Times obituary for an adventuring robot. Sooner or later, helium will be more precious than gold, and it's abundant in America. Prisoners use cell phones to run gangs and order killings, but jamming cell phones in prisons is illegal. "Man With Immense Pink Genitalia Sculpture Gently Rebuffed at Museum." Development of new racial slurs not keeping pace with mixed-race births. Videos: PS22 Chorus does Phoenix's "Lisztomania"; trailer for Treme.
