23 March 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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Yesterday's Israeli attacks on Gaza City killed mixture of militants and civilians, including two children.
Very clever visualization from the Guardian of recent Arab unrest.
Europe grapples with leading Libyan intervention, displaying between "too much zeal" and "too little zeal."
You would think that the president had been beset by a bevy of emotional, estrogen-addled interventionists.
Former champion on table tennis as diplomacy tool, aiding U.S.-China relations.
Japan grinds to a halt, hit by "mystifying" fuel shortage.
Japanese mafia groups aid relief efforts by shipping vital supplies.
Where crematoriums can't incinerate fast enough, some Japanese towns bury dead in mass graves.
Winner of first national spelling bee--cult figure among spellers--dead from myelodysplastic syndrome, 86 years after "gladiolus."
Long read: Journey to see cave art in Tennessee's "dark zone" sites, glyphs by High Mississippian people.
Denmark combines artificial ski slope, gigantic laser pointer, and power plant for amusing effect.
Op: Envy is not going away and it does not stem from the contrast between ordinary lives and the lives of the very wealthy.
Old Susan Orlean piece on Maui surfer-girl culture: daydream of pure surfing adolescence.
Today in the ToB: John Williams decides whether Nox nixes Next or Next nips Nox.
Photographs of tube televisions the moment they are switched off.
Academic videos: The truth about zombies; Google goes Gaga.
