2 February 2011: Afternoon By The Morning News — 02 Feb 2011 Secretary Clinton's long friendship with Mubarak shown to be key--and risky--to Obama's Egypt strategy. Samples from Arab press responses to Egypt's unrest. Egypt-related Twitter feeds to follow. Yemen's president promises not to run for reelection; Jordan's king dissolves government. Norway deports "Norwegian of the year." For Chinese New Year, 2.85 billion air, train, bus, ferry, and highway trips will have been made by 700 million people. Long read: Compared to CSI, America's coroner system is deeply dysfunctional. Maine petitioned to legalize switchblades for one-armed citizens. Answers provided for rhetorical questions posed in the Guardian magazine. Don't repeat the language politicians use: decode it. Neuro-linguistic advice for reporters. Notes on a theorem that enough monkeys could write everything. Guide to becoming less squeamish about cooking roadkill for dinner. I get extremely anxious. I panic. It happens every time. Frank interview with Jack Nicholson. Korean director Park Chan-wook shoots new film on iPhones (trailer). Artist Phillip Toledano commissioned portraits from China of himself in lieu of dictators. See also: Toledano's pictures of phone sex operators. Captivating economic definitions and social analysis of a 1950s kitchen.
