18 February 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 18 Feb 2010 Play-by-play reconstruction of the Hamas-commander assassination in Dubai. Do spies and assassins really wear fake beards? Yes. Sullivan on why war is always evil, even when it's necessary, but torture is never justified. Op: Conservatives would never dare return the stimulus; it's brought them too much prosperity. Half a million Britons wash their bed sheets only three times a year. Fascinatingly bureacratic: Newly released files on UFOs and "flying Toblerones" in the U.K., 1994-2003. To achieve transcendence, forget study--"just have surgery on your parietal cortex and give it three days to a week." Instapaper for the flight: The struggles of salmon. Profile of Yuichiro Miura, the man who skied down Everest 40 years ago. Flattery--even the patently insincere type--is especially effective on folks who are down on their luck. The mean game that editors talk about punishing plagiarists is just that. Talk. The universal rules of plagiarists. Photo of a tempting array of cheeses set aside for the nation of Latvia. Pictures of wooden churches in the Russian north. What costs more: the Silverdome or the number of peanuts needed to build a life-size replica of the Silverdome?
