23 February 2009: Morning By The Morning News — 23 Feb 2009 "We missed the biggest Middle East peace opportunity of the decade, just so we could keep saying 'axis of evil.'" Let's talk to Iran. Obama will not continue Bush's missionary rhetoric to spread democracy--diplomacy will be quieter, rebranded. Slums are innovative and hopeful; improving them allows urban migrants a level of security--and a future. There is a way to wipe out AIDS, and it's going to cost $85 billion and some civil liberties. Geography professors use satellite imagery to identify three buildings that may house Osama bin Laden. Video-game-like software aids disaster planning: How to save New York from rising sea levels. Photos: Visual type around NYC; New York transit typos. I fear Muzak's passing will only drag us deeper into the cultural abyss. In praise of Muzak. In Iceland, women lead the recovery, celebrate Husband's Day, fear the "Glass Cliff." "Her kidneys are ruined...she's got calcification in her skin; her vessels leak." Inside the N.I.H.'s undiagnosed diseases program. An interview with Jon Fasman, who's been named a finalist in the Young Lions Fiction Award. From 2003, Fasman's "What They Weren't Worth," for TMN. Video: Are you the favorite person of anybody?
