2 May 2008: Morning
By The Morning News
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02 May 2008
In British elections, Labour gets only 24 percent of the vote, its lowest since the 1960s. There would have been book deals, movies, forgiveness, VIP tickets to charity balls. People can forget almost anything these days. Mourning the "D.C. Madam." How to buy time, if you can afford it. Fed to get tough on credit card companies, prohibit "unfair or deceptive" practices such as arbitrary interest hikes. Slideshow: Antonio López García, a product of the Franco regime, is sometimes considered Spain's greatest living painter.
Shock art aims to start a dialogue, but usually only gets as far as burning the books. Video: When dropping a baby off the side of a building is OK. Sort of.
What's underneath it all? Less of the same, and more of it. How Kraft reinvented the Oreo in China, winning hearts and minds on bicycles with cookie wheels. People expected a map instead of a diagram. Massimo Vignelli updates his 1972-1979 N.Y.C. subway map. Don your 3D glasses for Björk's "Wanderlust" video; remove them for the making of. Video: The only way in which a set of metronomes could ever blow your mind.
Texas man arrested trying to cash $360 billion check.
