30 June 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Twelve things America's next president can do on day one to improve America's standing.
Clark: Getting shot down in a plane doesn't make McCain qualified to be president.
Measuring the appeal of New York's new "Waterfalls" in terms of web parody.
Waterfalls are supposed to be Nature's most spectacularly wild destinations, yet on the East River, they're tame to a fault.
Urban birds strain their voices singing, damage their hearing, have trouble attracting mates.
Why catchphrases, even when they're used ironically, ought to be "thrown under the bus."
Swift-boat veterans would like to remember the soldiers they lost, not some political smear.
Though he was originally fond of Barack Obama, the weekly meetings of the University Democrats made Tom increasingly Baracktose intolerant.
Meet Teodoro Obiang: Africa's worst dictator, leader of "the Switzerland of dictatorships."
Meet a terrorist sketch artist.
As self-help finds fans in Iran, The Secret tops best-seller lists.
Zadie Smith on Kafka: We are all insects now.
Foreign Policy's top 100 public intellectuals; the chosen put in their own votes.
Perceived differences between tap and bottled water found to be almost entirely due to marketing.
On phantom sensations, or literally how to scratch an itch that's in your brain.