21 April 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 21 Apr 2009 Price declines in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Luxembourg stoke fears about deflation. Notes on how Africa may come out of the financial crisis with stronger financial systems. Are the values espoused by the Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded? Cowboy culture meets contraception in fascinating article about wild-horse mating. To alter public opinion about the mentally ill, treatments need to be shown working. Interesting, thorough Newsweek profile on the current state and future of epilepsy surgery. Photos of "myster spotsy," where "bizarre forces" obscure reality. Death of Maxim blamed on an absence of any erotic charge and too much Photoshop. Stunning photos of Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Anthropologist who says cooking made us human insists we'll find proof of fires 1.8 million years ago, fear not. New songs from the Streets appearing on Twitter; Mike Skinner "can't be bothered" to sell his music anymore. Excerpts from Steve Reich's Double Sextet, winner of the Pulitzer. Gallimard editor praises France's fixed-price system, where chain stores can't sell for less than independents.
