19 June 2007: Morning By The Morning News — 19 Jun 2007 U.S. sets free millions to Fatah so Abu Mazan can survive; Gaza gets lopped off, and a democratically-elected government topples. How to make a living smuggling weapons into Gaza. Pakistani minister calls for suicide attack after Rushdie is to be knighted. Hersh on Taguba, the Abu Ghraib investigator. Briefing book on the U.S.'s discouragement of Taiwan's nuclear program in the 1970s. Op: What threatens freedom most is run-amok environmentalism. Democracy as the uncurable mess of irrational people--though better than dictatorship. Socialists lose power in France, lose favorite leading couple to "the rupture." Photo essay of what families eat around the world; how wine writing got so wonky. The life of a Chinese gold farmer, or, virtual gold shoppers who sweat for Western gamers. Today's long read: Profile of Africa Command, the Pentagon's growing incursion into the long-ignored continent. New study says black holes may not include "event horizons"; "junk DNA" turns out to be essential. Tracking the horizon: Alex Ross hits three orchestras in three cities in two days. What--and how much--it takes to promote books in the U.K. at Christmas. How to be a professional designer, as instructed by The Sopranos. Thirty-one writers hit up 31 houses of worship in Seattle. Thirty-one ways to lace your shoes. Oklahomans waited 50 years for a Plymouth to be dug out of the ground.
