17 March 2009: Morning By The Morning News — 17 Mar 2009 Obama directs Treasury officials to "pursue every legal angle" to rescind bonuses at AIG. Though it may now be too late to get the AIG bonuses back, stricter rules could be attached to the next $30 billion. Thorough: 27 visualizations and infographics to understand the financial crisis. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer becomes the latest--and so far, the largest--newspaper to cease printing and move online. Strange visitors--possibly Uzbeks--were engaged in military training in the forests. What Pakistan's Swat Valley was, and what it's about to be. Kim Jong-Il sets up pizzeria in Pyongyang, where two million have died in famines since the 1990s. From last December, the only escapee from North Korea's prison camps tells of torture, executions, fear for those left behind. Also from December, the story of the '70s-era Paul McCartney sound-alike song from the movie Role Models. Palestinian territory mapped as an archipelago. Tree featured in The Deer Hunter dies. Mental powers start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22. Winner of worst postmodern article title; how to write and speak postmodern.
