30 October 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Without support from Merkel and Sarkozy, Blair sees chances slip of becoming Europe's super-president.
Digging into the dealings of Blair, Inc.
France wants to fist-bump across the Rhine to seal a European power-play, but Germany's not yet persuaded.
Among rich countries, the more unequal ones do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator you can imagine.
Best of Cheney's bellicose one-liners.
Judge remembers Chirac's sleazy days and orders him to stand trial for ghost jobs scandal.
Which manufactured consumer product has the deepest market penetration in rural India? Matches.
Cuba braces for a communist crackdown on capitalistic farmers markets.
Unforseen iPhone markets: amputees, porters, breastfeeders.
Clim'City: The Sims of climate change.
Pop science on why children love magic, but don't follow card tricks.
There is nothing new about novelists borrowing the language of contemporary science. Refutation of the limp neuronovel theory.
Americans take their "Tosca" gravely, down to the missing candlesticks. (Hey, John Adams has a blog.)
Maira Kalman goes to Washington.
"The Little Apple"--Easton, Pa.--is equidistant from New York and Philly, and fan feelings run both ways.
We make you work for it in central Iowa. Halloween in Iowa is an exchange, not an extortion.
The aesthetics of pastoral America and a look at the life of Dorothea Lange.
Chart: Nearly half of online daters in Nevada think they're geniuses.
Photo tour of Wilco's studio loft.
Excerpts from TMN's Kevin Guilfoile's archive of old Chicago captured in 8mm.
Typewriter sculptures, and art made from coffee cups.
Does M&M stand for good? Or rather Murder & Maliciousness?
