19 August 2008: Morning
By The Morning News
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Two days after Medvedev's vow to withdraw, Russian forces capture 21 Georgian troops in Black Sea port.
McCain's 1973 U.S. News & World Report article claimed V.C. guards were gay, enjoyed beating him.
As the Iron Curtain threatens to fall once more, Eastern Europe looks to a thinly stretched U.S. for reassurance.
No sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session--294 so far--than this one.
Tilting away from windmills: U.S. farmers discover the problems wind-turbines bring a community.
The road to energy autonomy: capturing solar power from asphalt.
Microloans are a great success story--their profitability could see the poor exploited by keen multinationals.
John Irving loves it, Vonnegut hated it, Americans distrust it: the semicolon.
Walking in the sky, in the clouds, means a form of ecstasy...There's a truth in it... Werner Herzog talks with tightrope walker Phillippe Petit.
From the attic: Rosecrans Baldwin uncovers Herzog's diaries.
"Don't be evil," is put to the test every day. A look back at 10 years of Google.
Op: With films like The Dark Knight and Inglorious Bastards, evil has become post-modernized.
The man who added snaps to the cowboy shirt died last week, age 107.