19 September 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Typhoon slams southern China; two million people were ordered evacuated off the coast in anticipation.
Pundits slander millions of teenagers for ever-coarsening, but it's their middle-aged fathers who are suffering ballooning crises.
What "game changers" mean to the White House: tactical surprises to change public focus, despite so many crises simultaneously affecting U.S. security interests.
Israel to solve its "perception problem" with $4 million worth of bikini ads.
Op: Bin Laden may avoid being typecast as "evil" with new, green-friendly consciousness.
Fred Thompson fears presidential run will typecast him as politician.
In the name of Jesus, get out! Notable presidential hecklers.
British politicians avoid publicly praising the arts for fear of elitism, even when the plebes prefer theater to football.
Study finds seatbelt laws are actually more appealing to those you wouldn't expect to like them (e.g., drunk drivers).
Today's long read: New breakthroughs may make biofuel development less environmentally harmful.
Books now with less-harmful packaging, designed for those who want to quit smoking.
Literarily, universities are now chiefly useful as the subjects of comic novels, but for little else.
Minor subject of New Yorker Asperger's story sends in a letter about dancing to Steve Reich.
"Pitchfork has way more reviews written by guys named Mark than by women of any name."
Oh, yeah: Today's other long read, a wonderful essay about the U.S., drugs, and bananas.
