3 August 2009: Morning By The Morning News — 03 Aug 2009 U.S. considers transferring Guantanamo detainees to a maximum-security facility in Michigan or Kansas. As we brace for H1N1's return in the fall, four experts weigh in on what to do to avoid what we're hoping to avoid. Nearly two decades after Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher was shot down over Iraq, Marines are shown the pilot's burial site. For one Afghan refugee, the reality of coming to the U.S. on a Special Immigrant Visa means relinquishing his past accomplishments, starting over completely. Op: America's self-image as a serial warrior has made peace an abstract idea. "Our contestants are fed at least every six hours." The price reality-show contestants pay to be a part of popular culture. Related: "These are the people who can go on TV and be publicly humiliated and see it as a good thing." NBC's quest to make a reality show centered around a college professor accused of genocide. Visions of Jesus in cinnamon buns and tree trunks are evidence of our cerebral evolution. Op: Gawker's relationship with newspaper content is not so symbiotic; blatant journalism-poaching should be more transparent. Coming to terms with the word "so" as a crutch of modern English. A look at handball's storied history and intense presence in New York City. Roger Ebert on the greatest movies ever made.
