27 April 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Op: Hope glimmers that the financial crisis has peaked, though recovery will require a lower speed limit, diminished expectations.
From February: "Stimulus bill headed for passage minus pandemic funds."
In Mexico City, Obama was received by Felipe Solis, an archaeologist who died a day later--Obama's showing no flu symptoms, though.
Blogging in Mexico City, writer and journalist Daniel Hernandez chronicles the lockdown.
From Ballard's Super-Cannes: She has a hunch that if people moved their chairs a further 18 inches apart they'd stop the infectious vectors in their tracks.
FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver messes with Texas, imagining the political impact of a Lone Star State split five ways.
Today is the last day to submit your application to be our summer intern!
"If you can carry 10 tons of cocaine, you can carry 10 tons of anything." A fascinating look at semisubmersible drug ships.
Noah Baumbach knows what it feels like to be a bee that scientists have been testing freebase cocaine on.
Science have isolated a likely cause of hive collapse, and have developed a cure.
Video: Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius's talk show, returns with an interview with the Minutemen's Mike Watt.
The summers were hotter, the girls were prettier, the TV was better. Tony Jordan defends the '70s.
Today's long read: An excerpt from Christopher Buckley's memoir of growing up the only child of charismatic parents.
