22 December 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Today's afternoon headlines are either long reads or fun sites to explore, dedicated to holiday travelers everywhere.
How Lil Wayne helped a New Orleans teacher survive his first year.
Keeping movies in mind during a first trip to Afghanistan.
Practical foreign-policy tips from Condoleezza Rice, Christopher Hill, Daniel Fried, and Gen. James L. Jones.
Civil rights, human rights, and mass imprisonment
Property bubbles have useful properties, too.
A current favorite essayist, Zadie Smith, on comedy snobbery, her father's death, and the state of contemporary British jokes.
Leonard Bernstein on terrorism, 22 years ago.
So interesting, we read it twice: How Muslims made Europe.
The making of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
We know our fashion history, thus we love Stephen Sprouse, too.
Plane crash passenger tells his story on Twitter pretty much while crashing.
Video: Simulation tracks every flight on Earth over 24-hour period.
Account of the evolution of the cell-phone novel in Japan.
