5 August 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 05 Aug 2009 Chinese firms hold three of the top four slots among biggest publicly listed companies. Clinton begins Africa tour promoting partnership, not patronage. Op: Western NGOs have an Orientalist--er, Amazonianist--view of the Amazon region. Tired by call girls and sex tapes, Berlusconi to be treated for stress while on vacation. The numbers we encounter everywhere in daily life are growing steadily larger. Male rape cases and castrations increasing in Congo, though most go unreported due to severe humiliation. Mosley: America's obsession with crime stems from discomfort with the muck of the modern world. Natural sounding wordoids in English. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard. New studies can reliably measure "grit" in individuals. Both Obama and Palin are modern bootstrappers. First full-body MRI scans of an entire nervous system. We are ceding over general knowledge (and geography) to the bots, but we still love our quizzes. Oxfam is the Tesco of the secondhand book world! Lahiri: Have cast-iron pan, will travel.
