19 December 2007: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Sixty-four journalists died covering news in 2007, increase of eight over 2006.
Blackwater shot dead Hentish, dog of the New York Times.
Inside a Kenyan fridge, the latest in a BBC series.
Other things Blackwater is up to recently: PR campaigns, adding to their arsenal, looking for U.N. jobs.
If someone buys you coffee at Starbucks, judge them to be a cheerless PR flak.
Print for the commute: David Byrne's cheerful survival strategies for emerging artists.
In today's feature, Andrew Womack judges the best 10 albums of 2007, with sample mp3s.
Meanwhile, Erik Bryan finds songs to illustrate the breadth of holiday music in today's Digest.
The 12 days of Christmas, as illustrated by comics; the 10 days of Christmas, as illustrated by bath balls.
Top 10 Christmas moments in non-Christmas films.
Current violence in Iraq seems to be taken straight from scripts for The Wire.
Coming soon, quite possibly "the most important idea you will ever encounter"--setting goals and paying consequences.
Complaints about natural laws being "just 17th-century monotheism without God."
Teenagers overestimate the riskiness of dangerous things, then choose to do them anyways.
Atlanta snags first place as America's bank robbery capital with the help of such characters as the Barbie Bandits.
Video: How honest people responded to 100 lost wallets.
