21 March 2007: Evening By The Morning News — 21 Mar 2007 Today's long read: How to keep from overselling or underestimating the United Nations. British bus company rolls into the U.S. selling fares for a dollar. New law in Minnesota requires drug makers to disclose doctor bills, and though doctors insist they're not on the dole, skepticism ignites. Op: No blood for oil? Exactly how much oil are we talking about? Thicker than blood? In today's Mp3 Digest, Rosecrans Baldwin admits to being in love with Alan Thicke's son. Mark Sarvas dusts up Firmin and The Road in this morning's literary cage-match. What it's like to write about, and through, cancer. Chinese reporters submit tea for urine, receive dire and expensive diagnoses. Prior to being banned from the book, 1979's alcohol-related Guinness world records. Eating in New York is still a more hedonistic experience, and eating in the West Coast is a more political experience. Interview with Michael Pollan. Cake tourism; coffee in England. Interactive map details British slavery. If enacted, faculty strike at Cal State would be the "first systemwide labor strike for the largest four-year university system in the country." I'm conscious when Henderson produces what looks like a hand drill and uses it to burr two dime-sized holes into the top of my skull.
