26 October 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Obama weighs outcome of Afghanistan war game; watchers wait for McChrystal to fly to D.C.
Op: Obama's surveillance tools are the same as Bush's: served with glib assurances.
At-home cosmetic lasers gaining popularity, and plastic surgeons everywhere are worried.
Interior decorating with Augusten Burroughs.
Distinct anti-Michael Moore movie industry emerging, rankling the ranklers (and the rankled).
Brooklyn writer heads to Mecca to perform hajj, discovers tolerance, eats halal Hardee's.
Egypt attempts to blacklist Beyoncé.
Perhaps I'm just getting old, but lately I've been hearing songs I like in the Container Store. Judging a place by its muzak.
Studies find that if you want people to work well as a team, give them sweaters or a warm climate.
How Letterman and his team experienced the blackmail reveal.
Historians say the battle of Agincourt, basis of English pride, was a more even fight than previously believed.
Soccer players with exposure to civil wars are more likely to get yellow cards during matches.
Disney offers refunds to parents of children harmed by Baby Einstein videos.
Dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don't. Crime novelist quits reviewing crime novels after too many books turn up torturing women.
Accounts of citizens most likely murdered by powerful Malaysians.
Descriptions of pain from the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
#drac: Right in time for Halloween: Survey with samples of Dracula adaptations.
