18 October 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Former prime minister returns to mobs in Pakistan after eight years in exile.
From the "bully pulpit," Bush says vetoing children's health insurance bill shows he is relevant.
Measuring how fast the candidates talk finds John Edwards, noted drawl-er, pretty durn fast.
In a world of scarce resources, where you could only have one, which would you choose: national health care, or a war on infection? And by what principle?
New evolutionary biology study tests gossip against facts, and you can guess who wins.
We wouldn't be surprised if there is life on this planet. "Second earth" discovered about 20 light years away.
Sasha Frere-Jones on rock's rediscovery of its whiteness about 20 years ago.
Gripping 1979 Lester Bangs story, "The White Noise Supremacists," about racism in rock.
The rock is broken: Sarkozy and his wife are filing for divorce.
In yesterday's feature, Rosecrans Baldwin looks at Sarkozy's divorce in light of "le running," i.e., French exercise habits.
Paris subways halted by country's habit of striking.
Today's long read: The habits of contemporary pirates in Southeast Asia.
The (somewhat dated) reclusive habits of Bill Waterson of Calvin and Hobbes (and how the Journal got him to review the Schulz bio).
Australia gets its speeders to slow down by mocking their penis size.
