20 September 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 20 Sep 2010 France sends soldiers to Niger's capital to retrieve kidnapped hostages. When these reports come in, I wonder if I'm the only human who will ever read them. Q&A with Pentagon's top arms buyer. Brief diary from Santo Domingo: bosoms, breezes, brightly colored birds, and very happy German sex tourists. London learns from Paris that maintaining bikes for public use requires regular influx of new bikes. Ground Zero tribute went dark five times, allowing 10,000 birds to resume migrating. Low-light illusion causes people to see apparitions in their own faces. Long read: Profile of Russian serial killer who killed more than Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, and Son of Sam combined. Websites registered for Putin's 2012 presidential bid. Slideshow: Clothes worn by dictators. Interview with anonymous chronicler blogging Mexico's drug war. Crowdsourced global price index for marijuana. Defendant has willfully continued to offer food services from buildings with goats on the roof. Summer/Fall of the TMN book: Jessica Francis Kane describes The Report's gestation on NPR. Analysis of how acronyms devalue psychology. Typeface creator Matthew Carter discusses how fonts adapt for print and screen. Inside YouTube culture, where web stars deliberate whether to cross over. Related: TMN writers account for a day spent on the internet.
