3 May 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 03 May 2011 Raid on bin Laden compound uncovered a "mother lode of intelligence," including a number of hard drives. With Missouri's appeal blocked, Corps of Engineers blows Mississippi River levee to save Illinois town. Brain tissue tests on former NFL player who committed suicide reveal the trauma-induced depression he suspected. He gave a commencement speech in Miami and golfed with aides in Maryland. Obama's 72-hour poker face. Always listen for the "to be sure" line, the caveat that reveals we may be getting things backward... Demand for rare earths--used to manufacture everything you like--spur price increases, protests. Sci-fi killed utopianism with its too-detailed map of the future; now it's time to use it to bring utopianism back. Video: Nabokov discusses foreign edition covers of Lolita. OED discovers use of "OMG" in a 1917 letter from a British admiral known for his "intemperate letters." Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment--but not its trove of memorabilia--goes up for sale. For medical researchers, big discoveries rarely turn into pharma treatments--that may change. An ode to the magic of libraries, those hubs of connection, as they're about to go extinct.
