4 June 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 04 Jun 2010 Obama cancels Asia trip to focus on oil spill; Free Gaza says new ship is on schedule. Wieseltier: Israel does not need enemies: it has its government. Long Island prodigy recommends plugging the oil leak with tires. Baghdad's U.S. embassy reports property worth millions gone missing. Six Russian astronauts seal themselves away for 520 days on a virtual trip to Mars. Photos: Evolution of the World Cup's soccer balls (birds in oil). Life in Iceland: Clothes boiled in urine; thrift and hard work; lots of sex. Overview of current technology being tested to port data into consciousness. Instapaper: Colombian family, struck for generations by Alzheimer's, becomes "center stage" for new early-onset treatment. Thank God Galarraga got a Corvette out of the whole deal; it keeps me from being stuck on sincere. College student suspended after Tweeting "threatening" comments ("playing with fire and oil"). Game designer creates a literary mashup of Horatio Alger and Oregon Trail. Wal-Mart to offer employees college credit through web-based university. New Jersey soon to enact America's toughest pro-pot laws. Mongooses pass traditions to their young. Wonderful, long meander about the tradition of note-taking. Fill-in-the-blank personal letter from Steve Martin.
