17 August 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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White House hints it's willing to compromise on the "public option" in its health plan.
"I'll be voting Taliban." The first part in a video series on this week's Afghanistan elections.
Strict gender segregation (and debatably, adversity) may have a hand in improving Islamic girls' test scores.
Caitlin Flanagan on Helen Gurley Brown, Elizabeth Edwards, and the state of the modern wife.
A British study confirms that role-playing situations with aliens can reduce homophobia.
When babies "play" with a toy, they're analyzing it; once they've solved it, they're ready to move on.
"Not a lot of fathers can say that about their son, can they?" Ian Frazier meets the Naked Cowboy's dad.
A plea to save jazz, now almost officially a dying art.
How Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, released 50 years ago today, forever altered the jazz landscape.
Also released today: Kind of Bloop, the Andy Baio-organized eight-bit tribute to Kind of Blue.
Rich: The early '60s of "Mad Men" seems more contemporary than the late '60s of Woodstock.
While walking in the rain two blocks from where Springsteen wrote Born to Run, Dylan is picked up by N.J. police.
"It's people growing up in the '80s and remembering A-ha for something other than cheekbones." A-ha takes on introspection.
