24 March 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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F.D.A. has 30 days to comply with judge's command to make Plan B pills available to girls at 17.
Op: Despite the rumors, Mexico is not a land of gangsters, nor is it a failed state.
Chart shows where the death penalty was used most last year.
U.S. diplomats back former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's claim that Holbrooke said he'd never see a trial.
Practical, illustrated meditation on the benefits of building a secret passage.
Transhumanist architects' dream of immortality ruined by Madoff's downfall.
Candy
sales skyrocket during times of economic woe.
Op: The Treasury secretary may not be an impressive performer, but he has a vision for the economy.
Twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall to be commemorated by 1,000 giant, falling dominos.
Mount Redoubt erupts; Alaska Volcano Observatory live-Twitters the event.
Heady roundtable with Tom McCarthy on the "new geography," changing modes of space and time, all-time favorite maps, etc.
Men less likely than women to finish books, more likely to own books they've never read.
Video: Mary Gaitskill talks about the trashy novels that first influenced her work.
TMN's Choire Sicha is bringing back "reporting about actual people"; scrutinizing flight attendants?
Instapaper for the commute: On Maria Sibylla Merian's scrutiny of nature.
