22 December 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 22 Dec 2010 South Korea aggressively erects giant Christmas tree near North Korea. Chinese officials ban foreign words and Chinglish from publication to keep language pure. Justice and politics in Russia is "all form and no content," as shown in trial of jailed oil tycoon Khodorkovsky. Spain's annual Christmas lottery spreads $3 billion around a country facing 20% unemployment. Britain's business secretary stripped of power after "declaring war" on Rupert Murdoch. Active Army Ranger named world's third best pastry chef. Chief Executive's top 10 wealth creators and wealth destroyers. Video: Leonard Bernstein conducting Haydn with his face. Community's Donald Glover's favorite places in New York. Account of Sofia Coppola's lost twenties in Hollywood shows fuel for Somewhere, her portrait of anti-Entourage L.A. Long read: Everything you want to know about a city--really, nearly everything--can be determined from population. See also: Radiolab report with Jonah Lehrer on same math that unlocks cities' logic. Graphic: Spiral Path of a Blindfolded Man. Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn map of Inception's plot. Round-up of books recently received by Robert Birnbaum, over at his new blog, "Our Man in Boston." Video: Sound-collage tribute to musicians who died in 2010.
