29 June 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 29 Jun 2011 Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attack landmark Afghan hotel, among Kabul's best-protected buildings. Tweets from Afghan journalists inside Hotel Intercontinental. Tabloid headlines for Wimbledon news and Murray mania. In symbolic move tied to Afghan drawdown, Pentagon employees shift from combat fatigues to battle dress uniforms. History of America's official color palette, source of traffic-cone orange and Schwarzkopf's preferred tan. Zimbabwe's independence harder to distinguish as China's "Next Empire" grows in Sub-Saharan Africa. Obama may be unable to state economy has truly recovered before 2012 election. France's Christine Lagarde becomes first woman to run the IMF. Report on two roles countercultural physicists of the 1970s played in the rise of quantum physics. He sat. He rapped. He handed police officers his demo tape. Man rapping at buildings shuts down Times Square. Argentina zoo allows tourists to ride and pet the predators. Australian boy out fishing knocked unconscious by whale tail whack. Brief profiles of people claiming to be world's most traveled person. Members-only pins, updated when the member reaches higher levels of country visitations. Benefits of joining the Travelers Century Club. Daily dose of painting: Still life, quick heart. Lovely photos from a camera mailed from Cape Cod to Honolulu. While I was working on him, Banville was everywhere. Confessions of a Ph.D. student whose subject worked nearby. Archive of avant-garde recordings from 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic LPs.
