26 January 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 26 Jan 2010 Another attack kills 18 in Baghdad, a day after 36 were slain in hotels. White House and Congress given failing grades at stopping biological terrorist attacks. Searchable map of Los Angeles's homicides. China releases 16 volumes of Cultural Revolution files scrubbed of anything about deaths or imprisonment. Slime mold builds network among food bits arranged like Tokyo's train system. Travel hacks who fluff Sri Lanka don't serve the country by sweeping carnage under the rug. Photographs of an almost-killing in Guinea-Bissau. Chart: How to make it out alive from a hostage situation. At sea, pirates are pirating pirates. Kasparov: "Weak human + machine + better process" beats "strong human + machine + inferior process." Profile of Henrietta Lacks: descendent of freed slaves whose tissue sample became the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture. The numbers, qualifiers, and relationships in one year of a man's life: The Felton Report 2009. The new normal: 2009 was the second-warmest year on record; the '00s were the hottest decade. Military vets put to work parsing 47,000 cubic feet of American Indian relics. Instapaper for the commute: The life of Kübler-Ross, "the death-and-dying lady who can't seem to manage her own death."
