29 April 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 29 Apr 2009 House approves Obama's budget plan 233-193 without a single Republican vote. Facebook-style visualization of the Senate shows Specter never had many Republican friends. Nine moments that mattered in Obama's first 100 days. Even during the Depression, I'm not sure prices fell this quickly. Home prices in Phoenix have fallen in half. A year after the murderous cyclone, diplomats report a chink appearing in Myanmar's political wall. Kenyan mosquito net manufacturers crack down on those who would use nets as dresses or fishing tackle. Official theme of China's naval parade was "harmonious ocean"; China's neighbors wish it were true. China has "modest number" of mentally ill (100 million), but no way is it linked to country's rise, insists expert. Today's pdf journal: Contemporary Psychotherapy. Mug shots may entertain us, but they also erode the presumption of innocence. Op: Inviting Belarus's Lukashenko to the party shows the EU lacks principled policy and plain old smarts. Pope takes a picture with Europe's last dictator. He will be remembered as a one-man genre; no one else is remotely like him. He was a talisman. Martin Amis remembers J.G. Ballard. Dante's Inferno now a video game. Video: Pregnant women are smug.
