22 February 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 22 Feb 2008 We love "Making Book 2008": Lay down a little money on the Tournament of Books and you (plus the matching companies) are buying books for kids. Welsh police refute "death cult," "online shrine" theories about 17 young people killing themselves in a year. PowerPoint presentation answers all of the universe's questions. Fascinating confessions of a "language polisher" for China's propaganda bureau. Stallone's unsmiling and serious-looking style makes him look like a lunatic. New Rambo unpopular with Myanmar chiefs. Feeling ill, blue, or in need of a hot toddy? TMN's picks for movies to curl up with. Video: Rip Torn bashes in Norman Mailer's head with a hammer. (Explainer.) Jad Abumrad, host of the magnificent Radio Lab, edits today's Video Digest at TMN with his favorite music for films. Test finds it's tough pegging college students' musical tastes to their personality characteristics. Italian scientist discovers the G-spot, develops an ultrasound test to look for it; Italian scientists unveil robot that can make coffee. Germany puts science, and a focus on international relations, at the top of its economic agenda. Gallery of images from the International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest. "There is no meal without meat." Namibia is a vegetarian's hell and an anemic's paradise. Story of infiltrating Seattle's 9/11 conspiracy crowd. Our new favorite book title: How to Avoid Huge Ships. See also: Obsolete skills for the 21st century.
