18 January 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Economist review of "An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution."
Donatella Versace says Russian women no longer like bling.
Where the presidential candidates stand on science issues.
In today's Video Digest, Meave Gallagher on the role of misogyny in the presidential race; Lauren Frey with political--and poetical--Non-Expert advice.
Print for the commute home: "Don’t worry," one of my teachers told me half-jokingly. "Arabic is only hard for the first 10 years. After that it gets easier."
Connections between the use of "yo" in Baltimore (and thus, The Wire) and Kerouac's On The Road.
The story of Paul Potts ever since he swapped selling phones for singing opera.
The story of a time capsule--from 1791.
Scientists, eyes darting around shiftily, are close to discovering why marijuana creates paranoia.
Signs you may have climate change anxiety disorder.
We agreed to go along with the joke and hang it for a short time in between the bathrooms. Stephen Colbert's portrait goes up in the National Portrait Gallery.
Dear guardians of our nation's nuclear weapon plants, please stop sleeping on the job. Love, TMN. (And: Dear New York Sun, thank you for your books section.)
Yes, the manila Macbook Air notebook sleeve has been developed; how other, fatter laptops are reacting to the Macbook Air.
Why blogs aren't all bad: Antarctic Journal.
