27 August 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 27 Aug 2009 Cash-for-clunkers program soon to become dollars-for-dryers, Warbucks-for-washers, etc. Bob Dylan negotiating with car manufacturers to be the voice of their in-car navigation systems. Op: Some Italian women, long beleaguered, are starting to put up with less, even when most Italian girls want to be velinas. Kindness is essential to our humanity, but it is deemed the virtue of losers. Men with obits in Kennedy's shadow: Dominick Dunne, Richard Poirier, Larry Knechtel. Nuclear deterrence is like playing a game of poker in which the entire world's lives are at risk. Young reporter spends time with Khalifa Hakeem, once Pakistan's most influential journalist. Ingredients of a Slim Jim analyzed. Julie Powell's main guff with Julie and Julia: It misrepresented her cat. Summary of a case study where a patient changed sex after having a seizure. Profile of the star-nosed mole and its beautiful appendages. Instapaper for the commute: Reasonably accessible article on the status of computing's P vs. NP problem. Google to allow free direct access to more than a million public domain EPUB books. Burma's unlikely literary problem: too few fiction writers. Video: Interview with Manhattan van man.
