24 May 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Body of one of the three captured U.S. soldiers found floating down the Euphrates River.
Today's long read: Al Qaeda in Pakistan is being funded by cash shipped from Iraq.
First thoughts on the IAEA's Iran report.
Fifty-one percent of Americans believe it's acceptable to bomb civilians.
Baseball widely attracts writers from across America; in the U.K., it's carp.
Why are we short if we're the richest country in the world?
No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
Round-up of the world's most powerful mobs.
France fascinated with its new first couple, particularly Sarko's wife, prone to flight; France's top socialist steps down, as promised.
EU caps cell-phone roaming charges, sending prices to "a quarter or a fifth of what citizens pay now."
Wonderful photo gallery: "Welcome to Pyongyang."
How to process a space shuttle, in pictures. See also, gallery of existence goofs.
"In Our Time," thankfully available on podcast, this week digs into the siege of Orleans.
Brits: Help the 20th Century Society save the red telephone boxes.
Fascinating discussions: foraging studies, demand for new formal reasoning.
Matthew Baldwin needs a comic artist to help draw Superheroes in IKEA; see also his IKEA walkthrough.
New favorite comic: Slow Wave.