4 January 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 04 Jan 2010 Beautiful pictures of 2010 being welcomed into being. Maira Kalman's final Happiness blog entry focusses on George Washington. Effigy of Obama taken down in Jimmy Carter's hometown. Recent Taliban bomber "found the flesh in our unmanned air force, seduced it, and slaughtered it." Mongolia poised to become the region's role model for democracy. Op: 2010 will be a year of incrementalism for China: more purchasing of foreign resources, more intransigence in political tar pits. Fear can motivate people to reach their absolute power level, but not exceed it. Italian astronomers recreate Galileo's telescope, improving on his original design. If you don't leave your phone on in a meeting in Italy, you are likely to miss the next one. How cell phones are used worldwide. Galassi: Publishers have earned their right to distribute e-books as the next link in the chain. Now that blindness is "a minor impairment," some say Braille is arcane, others say "listening is not literacy." Predictions about the future are difficult. Forty years later, Paul Ehrlich looks back at The Population Bomb. Pictures and history about the Bronx's rediscovered beer caves. Video: Bodega Down Bronx.
