3 March 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 03 Mar 2010 Spitzer: There are certain core values that the marketplace simply will not address. Visual economics for global health care costs. Story of a girl molested by a police chief shows the Indian middle class's fight against corruption. Israel doesn't have borders, or perhaps has too many of them. "Snowball sampling" used to determine which drugs are preferred by Spanish clubbers for sex. Brief summaries of five semi-serious American secessionist movements. Accounts of 10 Japanese ghost towns. Driving itself is totally chaotic. Six questions for Peter Hessler about China. R.I.P. Barry Hannah, dead from a heart attack on Monday. I once boxed up and hid all my Barry Hannah books in the basement, for fear that his style would contaminate mine. The Official Petition to Establish "Hella-" as the SI Prefix for 10^27. Census questions from 1790; statistical time travel. We're currently in a board-game renaissance; Matthew Baldwin's roundup of the best of 2009. Leno is back, and he leaves a bitter taste; meanwhile, Conan is tweeting. Formerly of the Tonight Show, TMN's Todd Levin's Non-Expert advice for the recently unemployed.
