21 April 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 21 Apr 2008 Some claim Democratic leaders are working to end their race before it reaches the convention floor. Condoleezza Rice visits Iraq, ridicules al-Sadr, who on Saturday threatened open war. In Sadr City, civilian casualties increase as fighting between militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces intensifies. Our morning plateful is honest and shiny and pink. Just like we are. The traditional British breakfast is killing its consumers. P.E.T.A. offers $1 million prize to the first person to produce commercially viable, in-vitro meat. Vultures--once praised as "nature's vacuum cleaners"--now reviled for killing live, otherwise healthy animals. If it was a bear with hooves that chewed cud and the goblin part was just in its stomach, would it be kosher? Lab mouse solves maze, ruins experiment. Law enforcers team with labs to catch criminals using victims' relatives' DNA. "I like all Russian women." Putin denies affair with gymnast, gushes over the fairer sex. Newspaper that broke the Putin story halts the presses. Danica Patrick races to victory in the Japan 300, becoming the first female winner of an IndyCar race.
