18 March 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 18 Mar 2010 Amnesia Nigeriana: When Nigerians blank out national trauma to preserve sanity. Op: How many U.S. officials will be branded anti-Semites before AIPAC and Lieberman realize that Netanyahu screwed up? Wyoming's hawkish senator Alan Simpson is back, but Republicans can't love him in the Tea Party era. Big banks better than small banks about paying off bailout funds. Scotland aims to be the "Saudi Arabia of marine energy" with tide and wave power. Chart: A century of America's eating habits, 1909-2009. Object large enough to be visible to the naked eye put into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Amazon plays hardball with Apple and publishers. Slideshow: Classic publishing print ads. Of the nearly 1,000 foreign-language films released in the U.S. since 1980, only 22 have grossed more than $10 million. R.I.P. Alex Chilton, the hitmaker; story about the Butthole Surfers in which Chilton plays a part. Community of poets lives inside the user-comment sections of New York Times articles. Today's long read: Wyatt Mason profile of David Simon and Treme.
