4 June 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning. Text of Obama's Egypt speech.
Gingrich reawakens fear of nuclear weapons exploded in the sky frying all electronics--he's not the first politician to be worried by pulp-fiction fantasy.
World hopes cyber-pranksters working alone don't provoke international incident with Korea through online terror.
Today's long read: Orwell's essays demanded to know literature's place on politics, and demanded that people tell the truth.
Audio: Cricket is being reborn a glamorous, fast-tempo game; a new format of matches takes over, lasting less than a day, rather than five.
If you hit it, you and the other pie-eater switch places and then you can eat one of his pies. "How To Explain the Rules of Cricket" by Kevin Guilfoile.
How lard finally triumphed over shortening and won the hearts of those who fear fat.
More older Americans using MySpace to track their favorite pre-internet musicians: Lionel Richie, Miles Davis...uh, the Cure.
Severance and buyouts make "funemployment" for laid-off 20-somethings.
"So you can see that I am not a very good painter...But after six months surely I'll get better, right?" In Venice, performance art on the cheap.
Op: In the next quarter-century vegetarianism will become the global norm.
From CFL bulbs to organic cotton T-shirts to Priuses, we're in an age of conspicuous, but environmental, consumption.
It runs on Toyota's patented "Smug Superiority Aura Drive." "Frequently Asked Questions About the Toyota Prius" by John Warner.
