30 August 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 30 Aug 2010 "Dropout factory" label works for colleges, too, and low-income minority students are disproportionately steered toward them. Two days after last week's anti-PowerPoint op-ed by a U.S. colonel, N.A.T.O. command sacked him. Second Mexican border-state mayor assassinated in two weeks. Op: Nationalism is killing the E.U., turning it into a union in name only. Scientists fear humans are like the wooly mammoth: symbol of a climate that no longer exists. Op: Women borrow drag queens' art not simply to look like women but to feel like them. Pro tennis players suggest Federer's William Tell video is fake. Politeness enforcement tactics, and a great queue-jumping story. Alan Richman's tactics for ordering wines in a restaurant; Alan Moore on "psychogeography," or poetry. Jacob Lambert on the danger of children's books. Related: TMN writers' kids report on their summer reading (and what authors are paid). Top 20 books from independent presses this fall. Sponsored contest beginning tomorrow: This week, TMN is giving away 20 copies of Tom McCarthy's C. Thoughts about Bolaño while visiting a Chi-Chi's in Belgium. Slideshow of a 137-day decomposition (or not) of a Happy Meal. Man completes San Francisco half-marathon while drinking a beer for every mile run.
