24 March 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 24 Mar 2008 France mulls partial Olympics boycott, and the public approves. (See more.) All visitors should be aware that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations. Fact sheet for Americans traveling to the Olympics. Karl Rove lists the blogs he reads in the morning. (See also: blog about beauty in retail.) The new market for luxury "superbooks." Where are all the sex scandals featuring women in power? Bolivia and Peru struggle for the right to chew coca leaves. It's not a good reason to attack Canada, but: the call for eliminating pennies and nickels, heck, even dimes. Birnbaum on the Baker opus, and the books to buy this week. And speaking of books: Language Log's Liberman takes on Remainder and The Shadow Catcher. Scientists produce neurons capable of taking on Parkinson's in mice--using the animals' own cloned cells. Squirrels' social behavior as compared to Facebook. The odds of dying from a variety of odd causes. Chat between Werner Herzog and Errol Morris. Today in my underpants I find a hundred dollar bill. I put it in the garbage. The diaries of Werner Herzog. Related movie, but we won't ruin the surprise by saying why: trailer for The Grand. Mailbag: Thank you for defending Vida, says reader; attention TMN readers who think I judged unfairly, writes McCracken.
