28 October 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Maine is gay marriage's new battleground; if the law's upheld, the movement gains its first ballot-box victory.
Instpaper for the commute: Invoking Stalin in today's debates is frivolous, and it disrespects his victims.
Friedman: We can't afford 20 years of rebuilding Afghanistan; better to stay strong and fight another day.
Op: When Krauthammer disses Brazil and Obama in the same breath, he disses himself.
Diddy goes to Brazil and likes what he sees.
Seven strategies the U.S. can learn from Byzantine statecraft.
Statistic: All 130,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria currently receiving food aid from the U.N. have mobile phones.
South Africa and Lesotho enter the top 10 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index.
Naples's notoriously violent female mafia is gaining regional authority.
Former "fishing business" owner, i.e., marijuana smuggler, seeks employment.
Lessons Thomas Keller learned from cooking his long-lost father's last meal.
Oxfam's interactive graphics explain trade rigging.
Hitchens: An atheist and a pastor walk into many bars... (see trailer).
John Irving novels analyzed for recurring themes, e.g., bears, Vienna, wrestling.
Report: the motion aftereffect illusion can be reproduced by imagination.
Scientific processes/stuff illustrated by household objects.
Photos of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Video: Anne Frank in a nutshell: A girl at a window, looking fearlessly at the sky.
Fantasies of a New Yorker lusting after real estate.
