28 September 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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With 56 shots fired so far in 2007, Blackwater's rate of shooting is twice as high as other security companies in Iraq.
First cholera death hits Baghdad; World Health Organization suggests 30,000 Iraqis may be infected.
Senate backs Biden's plan to separate Iraq into three separate regions--a plan that has no support from actual Iraqis.
The most damaging outcome would be along the lines of the proposals that recommend partition, like the Gelb-Biden plan. I think those fundamentally misunderstand Iraq.
To understand Myanmar: Good round-up of Burmese bloggers getting the word and photos out.
Reportedly, and on a $1 billion pension, Saddam was willing to go into exile right before the U.S. invasion.
Brief account of a man who actually saved the world, and whose Russian pension is now very small.
Havel: We need not fear for our planet. But that doesn’t mean that the human race is not at serious risk.
The week in Russian news.
The state of children's literature in Russia, now that Dr. Seuss is no longer an ideological opponent.
Video: "Your Job in Germany," by Dr. Seuss, directed by Frank Capra.
Someone's job apparently is to steal New York's recycling at night.
Nookie can get weird out there. Explaining why no third type of sex cell has evolved in multicellular animals (i.e., why no third human sex).
Ten credit card reform bills you can help evolve.
Further evolution: The same Japanese Coke machine, photographed everyday over the course of two years, largely remains the same; not true for new transparent Japanese frogs.
Transparency to play a role in the rebirth of Coudal's Layer Tennis today.
