27 October 2010: Morning

This election, Democratic candidates have outraised and outspent their Republican opponents--excepting Whitman's $141 million.

A history of candidates with odd names: Young Boozer, Isaac Hayes, Barack Obama.

Abroad, journalists are fascinated and bemused by the Tea Party, confirming all their suspicions about Americans.

"We are a low-wage country compared to Germany." BMW outsources manufacturing to U.S., where they land degreed, experienced workers.

In Dundee, where numerous video games developers are out of work, city sees opportunity in smartphone apps.

When small liberal arts schools add football, unincarcerated male students turn up.

Centuries-old skeletons acquit Columbus of the charge of bringing syphilis to Europe from the Americas.

Op: Columbus Day controversy ignores the good intentions of its founders, and that other holidays aren't quite deserving either.

Psychologists work backwards to discover the root of basic fears.

Mortality-obsessed Scottish doctor left intricate collection of death engravings.

Candy: Relative healthiness of; ranking through hierarchy of; various reminiscences of.

Klein served cocktails of gin, Cointreau, and methylene blue, which--to his utter delight--stained everyone's urine blue. The origin of International Klein Blue.

Op: As wristwatches fall out of fashion, our relationship with time becomes more complicated than ever.