23 December 2009: Morning By The Morning News — 23 Dec 2009 Retailers struggling to recover from last weekend's commerce-interrupting storms, though optimism remains. Tinsel sales this year are up 40 percent. Bookmobiles fall victim to recession. U.N. wants Camara and other Guinean leaders to stand trial for the recent stadium massacre. Yuletide reading: People everywhere are still suffering from a continual retelling of that old Bible story of headstrong, impossible Eve. Mainly white dudes in the A.P.'s montage of 2009's significant deaths. Yes: Guantanamo Bay has a gift shop; no: Guantanamo's architects probably won't be punished. Historical examples of conservative hysteria. Op: The best thing to be gleaned from Copenhagen is how Denmark has tied business success to green might. Even moderate geoengineers forsee using radical solutions--sun shields, algae blooms--to combat climate change. In light of the media's hype around tablets, it's useful to remember CD-ROMs. There comes a time in every science writer's career when one must write about duck genitals. Op: Handwriting isn't going anywhere soon; but it is going. Wonderful collection of letterheads from the avant-garde; templates for last-minute holiday newsletters. Cyrillic continually denied a place on the web; the Kremlin retaliates, but Russians resist. Ebert's top 10 documentaries of the year. Spiderman misses his train at King's Cross.
