20 April 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Human Rights Watch director says Obama gains diplomacy power by releasing the torture memos.
With jobs drying up in Japan, government offers money to immigrants to go home (providing they don't come back).
As Western shoppers desire less cashmere, Mongolian shepherds face herder loan defaults.
Map of the Fed's intervention in the crisis thus far.
Op: The U.S. postal service is in the business of delivering junk mail; how about we adopt the Swiss model instead?
Field guide to spotting bad conversions of former storefronts.
Lengthy essay on the utopian architecture of extremist Mormon factions.
Instapaper for the commute: Everything you need to know about neuroenhancers to build the new, more productive you.
Classifications of harassers and stalkers of the British Royal Family.
This week in science books: Some things are unmeasurable, sure, but let's be grateful for what we know.
Top 10 forgotten Pulitzer-winning novels, including Millhauser's 1997 Martin Dressler.
TMN's Choire Sicha launches new project to prevent you from being bored, The Awl.
Fascinating slideshow narrated by veteran climber Wayne Merry on El Capitan's initial assault.
You, too, can sing with vibrato like Susan Boyle, but don't try sounding like Mariah Carey.
There is one great margarita book in the world and this is it, and it's free on Google Books.
Hollywood is where the dreams of the world are organized and
manufactured... including stupidity. Notes on Herzog.
