29 April 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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"Yes We Can Iran": Ahmadinejad borrows Obama's slogan for June election.
Snowe: Specter's defection is a sign Republicans must heed Reagan's call that the party should tolerate inner disagreements.
Synchrony rituals are powerful; moving and singing in unison builds group cohesiveness, provides competitive advantages.
The first U.S. swine flu death is reported: a 23-month-old in Texas.
Epidemics explain societal fears; plagues of the past led to Jewish exile, gay persecution.
Flickr's geotagged photos create accidental maps of most photographed locations, show where our attention goes.
Video: In search of China's frightening "black jails," where petitioning citizens are detained.
Mayoral aide gets a disciplinary letter in his file for not relaying that Air Force One would strafe Manhattan, send New Yorkers into a panic.
Earlier this month, unidentified attackers successfully brought down an American city's infrastructure.
"We are, all of us, at risk, and medical science is powerless to stop it." Millions and millions dead.
A sortable gallery of "Calvin pees" decals.
Recently published: Conversations With Julian Barnes includes one of Birnbaum's many chats with the author of Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur & George.
Searching for guitars on eBay, man stumbles across axe stolen from Sonic Youth in 1999--he buys it, returns it, restores order.
