22 April 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 22 Apr 2010 Moody's dings Toyota's credit rating, estimates the carmaker's sales will suffer through at least 2012. "I kind of just combined the flavors and added the shrimp." S.S.A. employees hold a cook-off. Forty years ago, Earth Day eschewed corporations; now organizers travel the path between green commoditization and corporate education. How scientific manipulation turned the public perception of DDT from a life-saving powder to an eco-scourge. For this month's "Of Recent Note," tell us the travel tips you learned the hard way. Navy announces submarine smoking ban--a problem, since around 40% of sailors are smokers; also there will be women and gays aboard. As email trumps postal mail, competition heightens among stamp collectors for the rarest specimens. Cyclic popularity of car shapes stems from switch between our inherent love of curves and need for novelty. A defense of copycats, who do the grunt work of spreading innovation to change the world. German-Arabic slam poetry on the streets of Cairo bridges national barriers. Analysis of book-selling trends at N.Y. street vendors. From the attic: Pitchaya Sudbanthad's profile of Freebird Books, in Brooklyn. Nabokov on Hemingway, Bronte on Austen: Authors savage each other's work.
