21 April 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Cheruiyot of Kenya wins fourth Boston Marathon; Ethiopian Tune wins for women in marathon's closest finish.
Street view shows Zimbabwe preserving patience for getting around to rigging the election.
Study says American gun owners are educated, wealthy, and very happy.
Financial analysts offer to talk about recession for $5.
Op: The food press rhapsodizes about peasant food, but during a time when food inflation is out of control, it still exhorts ridiculous prices.
With wheat prices doubling--and heroin prices falling--Afghan farmers switch to grain.
In case you're feeling rosy about the war in Iraq, it may be due to the Pentagon's coached crew of progress boosters.
Al Qaeda no. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri wishes Tiger Beat to burn in hell.
On the contemporary appeal of MINCES when it comes to spying: money, ideology, nationalism, compromise, ego, and sex.
Taking pictures of people taking pictures in today's TMN Gallery by Aislinn Leggett.
Robert Birnbaum gives the web its weekly dose of what to read now in today's Digest (sponsored by Wittgenstein).
Much of what's on the web still qualifies as a hobby video--mini head-trips for office slackers and those too cheap to buy quality weed.
Print for the commute: Learning (Crazy) English in China as path to personal transformation.
