3 February 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 03 Feb 2009 Palestinian-American college student loses both brothers in Gaza attack. More than 20 million migrant Chinese have lost their jobs and gone home. Video: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gets a shoe lobbed at his head. Economy looks good for cobblers, bad for expensive watch makers. European leaders outraged by the "Buy American" segment of the stimulus bill. Interview with Michael Dukakis is long on interesting details about intercity rail. To succeed, the electric car needs Bolivia's salt flats, of which Bolivians are quite aware. Notes on Lincoln's patent for "the revolution in steamboat navigation." Sale prices and stories for 10 movie props that are now in private hands. Following up on his coffee drawings, Christoph Niemann's "I LEGO NY" proves he's a genius at creating internet memes. Genius peeler, and Union Square fixture, dies at 75. Profile of genius crime novelist Andrea Camilleri, chainsmoking his way through his eighties. Roger Angell's notes on editing Updike.
