23 July 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 23 Jul 2009 New steamy sex tapes released of Berlusconi with a prostitute. Op: Investigating the C.I.A. assassination program should include asking why it didn't work. On average, master's degrees in education bear no relation to how well teachers teach. Backyard chickens beaten out by urban beekeeping for new home-farming trend. Science tattoo emporium. E=mc{+2} is the supermodel of equations; TMN's Anthony Doerr on why you should care. TMN's Andrew Womack on David Foster Wallace and growing up in a tennis-playing family. Writer struggles to be social in a land of softball leagues; writer meditates on his neighbor in the Blue Hills of Virginia. Q&A on legal questions arising from the Gates arrest do not shed pleasant light on Cambridge police. If there's doubt about Arafat's death, it's because Abbas has never released a report on what killed "The Old Man." In most cases, crowds behave sensibly, and police and governments should trust them. Audio: Overview of the DSM, the (frequently controversial and revised) manual of mental illness. Excerpts from R. Crumb's Genesis. Mourning the loss of valuable public broadcasting, which used to educate rather than placate. Possibly the strangest crime story you'll read today. Furries included.
