21 December 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 21 Dec 2010 Pyongyang transmits its response: South Korea's military exercise are "not worth reacting to." Auditors dig into T.S.A.'s technology spending, wonder where all those puffers went. With poetry already dead, M.T.A. to replace literary quotations with more ads, service advisories. Eat bad pizza but trick yourself into believing it's good. How to live in New York City. N.Y. ethics commission slaps Paterson with a record fine for soliciting and accepting Yankees World Series tickets. Twenty-three TV episodes based on "A Christmas Carol." Remembering actor Steve Landesberg, who played Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller. Thirty-seven years after saying a Velázquez wasn't the real thing, the Met reverses that reversal. Now hated, dogs singing "Jingle Bells" was a marvel of music technology 50 years ago. Never mind the health nuts: Fast-food psychology is omnipresent; just looking at McDonald's makes people impatient. Tour of the "real" Santa's home in the Arctic Circle, with reindeer sleigh rides, Finnish elves.
