17 February 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 17 Feb 2010 Hitchens: North Korea's racist dictatorship has produced starving and stunted dwarves. Slideshow: Presidential propaganda for kids. The U.K. is all malcontents (71% before the crash), but even if "broken Britain" rings true, the numbers don't support it. Stop urinating on me, Vollmann. Books that sound good in theory but are disasters. Getting a new word into the dictionary isn't impossible, it just takes forward planning. Searching for the lost factory workers of East Germany. Saudi women boycott lingerie shops that employ men. Amazing aerial photography captures Earth's basins. Photos: Vice goes to Creationland. Pictures from a historical dental museum; pictures of Wayne Coyne's house. Enjoyable account of those "wonderfully unsettling" carnivorous plants. Neuroscience is the new psychoanalysis, and the market for it is ever-expanding. In France, a subsidy is provided for dying. The new cremation for the fire-phobic: "bio-cremation," or "water resolution," or turning your corpse into liquid soap.
