18 September 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Slideshow of Afghanistan's first national park.
Poland and the Czechs were already reluctant about Bush's shield; cancelling it could have been better timed.
Slate writer responds to seeing his mistake in the president's mouth.
Paying for news might be a stretch, but paying for miscellany is en vogue.
Paper dolls made from each Sunday's New York Times Magazine; practical uses for discarded banana peels.
Saturday morning read: Excerpts from an encyclopedia of mass hysteria.
At Glaxo trial over links between Paxil and birth defects, memo appears about burying negative studies.
Man searches for meaning, but absurdist literature makes it difficult; ergo, studies find, reading Kafka makes you smarter.
Nine-year-old diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
Rowing as a group increases athletes' pain threshold.
Despite what straight people say, gay male sexual tastes aren't simply top and bottom, say scientists.
Ebert's jubilant case for Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass.
Today in Infinite Summer: What David Foster Wallace predicted.
If you plan to be murdered and expect decent press coverage, please have the good sense to be a Yale student.
Blood chocolate is the new blood diamond.
Enjoyable profile of Paul Dirac, mystic of quantum mechanics. See also: M.I.T.'s chameleon guitar.
Somewhat related: "For fans of sleazy, poorly researched, exploitative true-crime books, the Satanic Ritual Abuse was a godsend."
All cannot be well with him who dials 999. Brief history of how to call for help in Britain.
