29 November 2010: Morning
By The Morning News
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From the WikiLeaks embassy cables, a rundown of Qadhafi's phobias.
An overview of what's included in the leaked cables, as well as cleaned-up data ready for you to download.
Also helpful: A cable about a riotous, well-armed wedding in the Caucasus.
By planning to sleep in their offices, incoming House members brandish their outsider badges, especially those who insist otherwise.
To create jobs, the White House pumped stimulus money to polluters in exchange for environmental exemptions.
From Drudge to Twitter to National Opt-Out Day to CNN: How the T.S.A. patdown story blew up.
Black Friday results: More shoppers spent more money on more things at more places.
Debt collection lawsuits clog the courts--many are for small amounts, and few borrowers bother showing up.
With new info about Mozart's debt at the end of his life, musicologists gain new perspective on what motivated the composer.
One theory holds that a preference for simple tonality is wired into the human brain. Alex Ross wonders why we hate new classical music.
What we read: best-sellers, Book of the Month Club picks and other critically acclaimed books for each year from 1900 to 1999.
Emerson founded a New England utopia, but cold showers were its downfall.
Op: Information overload anxiety, like mass information itself, has been around since printing press days.
Algorithms single out a 1950s Sunday as the most boring day in history.
Video: I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
