22 September 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 22 Sep 2010 Snippets from Woodward's forthcoming Obama book, in which nothing about Afghanistan looks good. Iran romances Caucasian neighbors to prevent U.S. and other countries from getting too chummy, too close. Paris offers carbonated-water fountains. City drawings by Chris Dent. Op: As it celebrates its 200th anniversary, Mexico is colonized by organized crime. Nigeria's cheap, community-focused movies make Nollywood the world's second-largest film industry. Long read: Oral history of Goodfellas. Explanation of the neuroscience behind accent discrimination. Carrots and sticks exchanged between trapped Chilean miners and psychologists assigned to manage their moods. Information theory applied to brain science in order to build a "consciousness meter." Faces from the last season of Oprah. Profiles of American mega-meals, e.g., Cheesecake Factory's pasta carbonara with 85 grams of saturated fat. Three times as many animals are killed today for their flesh as when Peter Singer wrote Animal Liberation (1975). Fascinating profile of today's Reeperbahn, where the Beatles began. Comparison of Cold War espionage, where the U.S. adored technology while the East Bloc relied on craft. Videos: Finalists for the first Vimeo awards. Story of Wyndham Lewis, Canadian writer famous for his anti-Canadian novels. From the attic: Jonathan Bell on how Americans can sniff out Canadians. Raymond Carver mad-libs.
