20 February 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Killings of civilians in Afghanistan leapt by 40 percent last year, up to 2,118.
As the Sri Lankan war ends, the future is divided by north and south, and the last chapter is grim and bitter.
Your Saturday morning read: Meet the bin Ladens.
Readers respond to Post's monkey cartoon; Daily News calls for apology.
Op: Obama's race speech walked the walk; Eric Holder's talked the talk.
Thin but interesting argument that Zadie Smith could replace James Wood as number-one critic.
The victory gardens, boutique vintners, and truck farms of America's bounteous literary cornucopia.
Hollywood loves to reward strippers and call girls, and Marisa Tomei's the latest proof.
Video: Blocks painted four ways to create multiple XXX pixel pictures.
Big pictures of people producing things.
Gallery of artwork produced on an iPod Touch.
Study finds that teenagers, told by peers or others to turn down their iPods, turn them up.
To have an iPhone in one hand and a pipe in the other is not unusual. Pipe smoking is back.
Fifty years since the music died, Peggy Sue is alive and well.
Video to sweeten the weekend: Fancy footwork by grizzly bears.