20 February 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 20 Feb 2008 Op: Putin will try to use the Kosovo precedent to destroy NATO. Zimbabwe's inflation hits new record--66,212 percent--without taking the black market into account. Scientists create the blackest black so far. Print for the commute: Research shows that a focus on effort--not on intelligence or ability--is key to successful child-raising. Doonesbury explores clinical neurolinguistics. Video: 20-minute Obama endorsement for those who like presentations. Wrong font for your gravestone; ill-advised business names. Being the only white person around. Blog devoted to what white people like. Text-heavy slideshow farewell to the Polaroid picture. Related: Photographs from areas where photographs strictly prohibited; NBC introduces new 52-week season of TV. Andrew Womack picks the top 10 albums of 1987; Erik Bryan examines Valentine's Day with mp3s in today's Digest. James Patterson directs new marketing plan at mothers so their children will read his books. Retailers hire "civil recovery" firms to hunt down shoplifting suspects. Today's white paper: The Effects of Power on Laughter. (And for the French speakers: Vie de Merde.) The power is too strong, we just can't stop reading: Johnny I hardly knew you. On comparing Ice Cube and Italo Calvino's interpretations of your female form.
