17 March 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 17 Mar 2009 Both reformists and conservatives face a tough battle in Iran's June elections. Meet Adnan Oktar and Turkey's creationist movement. Op: Harazi Kabul and Obama Washington need to get together quickly, says former ambassador. A.I.G. execs should consider honorable suicide Japanese-style, says U.S. Senator. The case for paying A.I.G. bonuses. Instapaper for the commute: Mark Danner's new "Voices from the Black Sites." Research on why you can or can't remember jokes (or only certain categories of jokes). How to write sentences like David Foster Wallace. Computer programmer swaps in USB drive for lost finger. New Christoph Niemann column explores a life in cables. Paleontologists excavate arctic soil, find fossils of huge dinosaur-fish predator from Jurassic period. In photos: Stores that are no more. Walking tour of New York's best independent bookstores. Neighbors complain of nausea from stench of portable toilet on Bob Dylan's lawn. Photos of beer cans; photos of 1980s East Village fashion.
