17 July 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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U.K. prepares for penance post-pitching of Russian plants, portending KGB's play in the polonium poisoning.
Inspired by China's recent chop-shop, a history of punishments for officials on the teat.
Public defenders defend better on salary rather than hourly wage.
Old but remarkable story of a black Harvard lawyer taking a busboy job at the Greenwich Country Club.
Pakistan's flaws prevent real democracy, resembling pre-revolutionary Iran with an extremely hard life for poor citizens.
Op: Rather than give up on Musharraf, the U.S. must carefully push for political reform.
What it looks like when (the glamour-boy) nuclear inspectors get to work.
Obit: Richard H. Goodwin, founder of the Nature Conservancy, steward of thousands of acres.
In media, diversity in cable options is welcome, and so is an uptick in vinyl sales.
Save wig and/or pillow money with the pillowig; see also, on the likely passing of Crocs.
Save more money for wigs by taking drugs on a full stomach--but not yet, warn doctors.
Today's long read: On the applications of swarm intelligence, or, why Southwest Airlines likes ants.
TMN's Tony Doerr wins an O. Henry award; as Tony can attest, girls don't find 15-year-old's reading of Howl appealing.
Remarkable images of a house that's been turned into a black hole.
The latest black holes for unsavory lad types in Georgetown, D.C.
Better to be a laughing-stock abroad than lose actual business over a half-millimetre penis.
