30 April 2010: Weekend
By The Morning News
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R.I.P. Leslie Buck, designer of New York's iconic coffee cup.
Damascus gets a smoking ban, redefining café society.
Pictures: Gaza's bodybuilding contest, for men's eyes only.
Boy Scouts of America fighting to keep files on suspected child molesters private.
Map of Europe redrawn so countries can be better friends with their neighbors.
He often gets mistaken as my guide. White woman married to a brown man in Mumbai.
Foodies defined generally: white, affluent, blind to poverty.
Long sweep of Obama's 20-something staffers; long sweep of self-trackers.
Kindle's tracking of users' favorite phrases finds most underlined passage is Gladwell's.
Long account of what it's like to fall in love with soap-opera characters.
Study suggests grandparents care differentially based on gender and lineage.
Symposium for people who have been sequenced; symposium on "evanescent chemistries" (perfume design).
Historical items of the Batcave itemized.
Bioengineer sequenced, analyzed, and learns he has a high risk of dying from heart attack or prostate cancer.
Videos: Robot can play a marimba, and Putin can hug a polar bear.
Comic: Story of the bookstore that sells nearly every book.
Wonderful roving essay about Sylvia Plath, Marilyn Monroe, and writing about not writing plays.
