18 August 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 18 Aug 2009 Hitchens: Yale Press's capitulation on the Mohammed cartoons is a tub of rot. Mood report in Afghanistan: "Do not vote on Thursday, or we will punish you. Signed, the Taliban." Chronic stress found to rewire the brain to promote further feelings of being highly stressed. Op: If alive today, Zora Neale Hurston would be a Fox News pundit. Over-emailed politicos spice up their BlackBerrys with saucy subject lines. Roger Ebert adores the term "death panels," and would like to sing to you the praises of public medicine. Interactive map of failed American banks; Slideshow: Goodbye Dubai? Tennis fans have lots to follow on Twitter. Elusive Thomas Pynchon picks out a playlist for his new book. Things you may not know about the workings of scientific journals. Jupiter's black eye and nine other signs of a rough-and-tumble universe. The nurse was still looking at me. "I hear she's a whiner," I said hopefully. Gripping, moving account of a doctor's first night on call. Account of the real family Evelyn Waugh loved and later used for Brideshead Revisited.
