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24 October 2006

By The Morning News —
  • Pretty brilliant: Headlines & News.
  • A look at Japan's right-wing uyoku movement, who blast rhetoric from loudspeaker-armed trucks all hours of the day--and night. (Photos here.)
  • In South Africa, where 83 percent of the population is religious, and one in five adults are living with AIDS, faith-based organizations play far larger roles in care and prevention.
  • Hackers break into online brokerages, manipulate stock prices, buy low, sell high.
  • Profile of an art collector who helped Matthew Barney toward being anointed "the most important artist of his generation" by the New York Times.
  • Chinese government considering cloning, porn to repopulate the panda.
  • More than six decades after the end of World War II, Germans still routinely come across unexploded bombs beneath farmers' fields or city streets.
  • Prisoner takes laxatives, drops 30 pounds, squeezes out of jail.
  • Debt levels are keeping more and more U.S. soldiers from overseas service.
  • "People have been married to my music... and I just don't think it would be very cool for them to switch on the TV and 'The Ship Song' comes on a Cornetto ad or something." Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, others on what music means.
  • The "Freshman 15" is old news--wait, did you just say "Generation XL?"
  • A fascinating--and rare--profile of Garry Trudeau.
  • Bush to no longer say "Stay the course," White House says.
  • Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling will spend 24 years in jail, pay $45 million in restitution--if he loses his appeal.
  • Iran is revving up new enrichment equipment, but whether the goal is weapons or to tick off the Security Council is still anybody's guess.
  • Reporters Without Borders says journalistic freedom is up in Haiti and Mauritania, down in France, the U.S., and Japan.
  • Vermont wins 2006 "Smartest State" award, and Tennessee is hot on its tracks.
  • Is it a smudge? Or is Kenny Rogers up to something screwy in the World Series?
  • A year in the life of three overweight teenagers at the Academy of the Sierras, aka the ultimate fat school.
  • Sudan's wealthy don't have time to care about sanctions--they're too busy tweaking the settings on their outdoor air conditioners.
  • Either Fresh Express really is the only brand of packaged greens to buy--or they have the best PR department.
  • New labels, including "animal compassionate," to show up at Whole Foods meat counter.
  • MTA to allow men who live as women to use women's restrooms.
  • "People come to this country and they like it. They don't view it as the belly of the beast. With very few exceptions, you don't see the bitter enclaves that you have in Europe."
  • Correlation found between cellphone use and sperm count, though experts see holes in the logic.
  • Lawrence Welk still encouraging North Dakotans to play accordion.