2 December 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 02 Dec 2008 Tracking the final regulations Bush is pushing through before Obama takes office. Florida breaks ground on first utility-scale solar investment, to be country's second-largest once running. For strengthening Iran, for failing New Orleans: 10 things Bush should regret most. African Union chairman says unity remains possible on the continent. Sarkobama hits the Paris streets. New blog for "Russia wonks and obsessive Kremlin watchers": The Power Vertical. Notes on "Teflon Putin" and the possibility he'll rule for 25 years. Big Picture images from Mumbai. The year in reading, hosted by The Millions; e.g., TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin. How about the year in writing? The first-ever hardbound TMN Annual is now available. The mechanism makes for beautiful dance, with Landry bending like pliable DNA in her partner's arms. Winner determined in the "Dance Your Ph.D." contest. Notes on progress achieved on a unifying theory in movement studies. American students save money by going to college in Scotland. On the life and death of Zima, the primogenitor of wussy clear "malternatives." Simplest website we've seen in a while: Going to rain today?