19 April 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 19 Apr 2010 Oklahoma law professor on lessons learned from defending McVeigh. A huge, swirling column of black smoke and debris rose into the cloudless sky. Clinton: Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy; no one is right all the time. Op: We now live in a global democracy--it's called the internet--and Google does 21st-century foreign policy best. Largest study of financial incentives in the classroom finds money's not enough, but for some students it helps. Women who delay having kids may avoid "motherhood penalty" of lower wages. Brewery workers strike when free beer is struck; brewery drivers retain right to three beers per day "outside lunch hours." Tantalizing history of the Dreammachine. By paralyzing facial muscles, botox may actually diminish the experience of emotion. Very young people are the best readers for these very old books. Mead's "Foundations of a Lifetime Reading List." Typo costs Penguin $20,000 after a cookbook recipe calls for "salt and freshly ground black people." Hitchens on Animal Farm: There is a Stalin pig and a Trotsky pig, but no Lenin pig. Armchair cheering: Boston marathon's blog and geotracking. On wheelchair marathon competitors: cutting-edge technology and custom-built chairs.
